GAO to Navy: Stop rewarding yards for making mistakes
MARCH 4, 2016 — A GAO report says that the Navy should stop allowing shipbuilders to profit byr correcting defects for which they are responsible. The report, “NAVY AND COAST GUARD SHIPBUILDING:
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Electric Boat gets $29.9 million mod to SSN 785 contract
MARCH 4, 2016 — Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT, is being awarded a $29,911,907 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2104) for the planning and execution of Virginia class submarine USS
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding books ATB order
MARCH 3, 2016 — Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG) has signed a contract for the construction of an Articulated Tug Barge Unit (ATB) for delivery in late 2017. The contract includes an option
NASSCO awarded $156.5 million for LHD-2 PMA
MARCH 2, 2016 — General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, is being awarded an undefinitized contract action with a not-to-exceed amount of $156,596,386 to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee
Fincantieri and Shanghai yard in cruise ship repair accord
MARCH 2, 2016 — Fincantieri and Chinese ship repairer Huarun Dadong Dockyard (HRDD) have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement on ship repair and conversion that is aimed at serving cruise ships based
Austal gets $14.6 million for LCS 10, LCS 12 changes
MARCH 2, 2016 — Austal USA, Mobile, Alabama, is being awarded a $14,656,227 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to exercise options for post-delivery support of littoral combat ships USS Gabrielle
Genting Hong Kong to buy three more German shipyards
MARCH 1, 2016 — Genting Hong Kong, which last year acquired Lloydwerft Bremerhaven, is buying three more German shipyards — the Wismar, Warnemünde and Stralsund yards currently operated by Nordic Yards —
Huntington Ingalls gets contract for CVN 73 RCOH planning
FEBRUARY 29, 2016 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has received a $185.2 million contract option from the U.S. Navy to assist with planning for the
Army awards $147.7 million ship repair contract
FEBRUARY 29, 2016 — The U.S. Army has awarded nine shiprepairers a contract worth $147.7 million for repair and maintenance work on its East Coast vessels. GMD Shipyard Corp., Brooklyn, NY (W911S0-16-D-0009);
R/V Sally Ride completes builder’s trials
FEBRUARY 26, 2016 — The Navy’s Auxiliary General Purpose Oceanographic Research Vessel (AGOR), R/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28), successfully completed builder’s trials, Feb. 21, off the coast of Anacortes,WA. The trials tested