JULY 13, 2017 — The U.S. Coast Guard has released a draft of its planned Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) entitled “Guidelines for Addressing Cyber Risks at Maritime Security Act (MTSA)
JUNE 27, 2017 — America’s largest military shipbuilding company is beefing up its cyber security. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that Ron A. Davis has joined the company as chief information systems
APRIL 20, 2017 — “I can envision a future scenario where a command center evaluates and issues drones for repair of an unmanned vessel – with no human intervention on board,” said
APRIL 7, 2017 — Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), and classification society DNV GL used this week’s Gastech event in Tokyo to present the results of a joint development project (JDP)
MARCH 22, 2017 — “Cyber risk is a subject that is not going away,” ABS Chief Operating Officer Tony Nassif told delegates at this week’s Connecticut Maritime Association Shipping 2017 event in
MARCH 16, 2017 — The United States Maritime Resource Center (USMRC), Middletown, RI, has launched an e-learning course, Cyber Awareness for Mariners. USMRC says the course gives mariners aboard any vessel a
MARCH 15, 2017 — More than 50 participants, including delegates from major owners, designers, shipyards and ABS technical representatives, provided input at the recent ABS Special Committee Meeting on the class society’s
JANUARY 26, 2017 — President Donald J. Trump is to nominate former private equity investment manager Philip Bilden as the 76th Secretary of the Navy—greatly to the surprise of those who thought
NOVEMBER 21, 2016—Thanks to the generous support of classification society ABS, a new ABS Engineering Center was recently dedicated at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The new ABS Engineering Center
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016—Unlocking big data is a key to making shipping more efficient. But securing that data is also critical. With most of the equipment and systems on board a ship networked,
