U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R. Me), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Defense Subcommittee, yesterday announced that the U.S. Navy has approved more than $34 million for six new workforce
Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., has been awarded an $867,666,667 modification to a previously awarded U.S. Navy contract (N00024-19-C-2227) for the detail design, and construction of three Expeditionary Medical Ships, an Expeditionary Fast
Last week, Bollinger Shipyards delivered the first Bollinger-built Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL) Class berthing and messing barge (APL 71) to the U.S. Navy. APL 71 is the fifth vessel of its class
The keel for the future USS George M. Neal (DDG 131), a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was ceremonially laid at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, December 15. The ship is named for
Seattle-based Snow & Company recently launched the 50-foot plug-in hybrid research vessel it is building for the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) into Lake Washington. The vessel, the R/V
Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, S.C., has been awarded at $8,220,997 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220524C4091) for an 82 calendar day shipyard availability for a mid-term availability of Military Sealift Command’s fleet ordnance and dry
Two Australian shipbuilders with significant U.S. presences chose Mobile, Ala., to announce today that they are teaming up for an Australian Army landing craft project. The two companies, Austal Ships Pty Limited
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has rejected a bid protest filed by Steiner Construction Company, Inc., a small business of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, against the continued performance of a contract awarded
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division christened the U.S. Navy’s third America-class amphibious assault ship Bougainville (LHA 8), December 2. “Today is not only a day to celebrate our namesake, representatives of
Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Oregon, and Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., have each been awarded contracts by Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Va., for work on fleet replenishment oiler (T-AO) vessels. Vigor