JHSV 1 completes IOT&E test schedule
OCTOBER 11, 2013 — The Navy’s first Joint High Speed Vessel, USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), has successfully completed its Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) end-to-end event, NAVSEA announced Oct. 3. U.S.
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LCS 4 completes acceptance trials
AUGUST 28, 2013 — Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) says that the future USS Coronado (LCS 4) successfully concluded acceptance trials August 23, after completing a series of graded in-port and underway
Barge explosions rock Mobile
APRIL 25, 2013 — Mobile Bay has been rocked by a series of explosions on empty compressed natural gas barges undergoing cleaning at an Oil Recovery Co. of Alabama facility on the
SCA announces 2012 Safety Awards
APRIL 18, 2013 — The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) announced the winners of its 2012 Safety Awards at its recent General Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. which was attended by more
SCA announces 2012 Safety Awards
APRIL 18, 2013 — The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) announced the winner of its 2012 Safety Awards at its recent General Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. which was attended by more
Navy invests $52.8 million to look at LCS affordability
MARCH 19, 2013 — It’s not much compared with the $1.378 billion the Navy awarded them earlier this month to build the four FY 2013 littoral combat ships, but Lockheed Martin and
Navy awards funding for FY 2013 littoral combat ships
MARCH 4, 2013 — The Navy has awarded funding for construction of all four of the FY 2013 littoral combat ships (LCS). Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being provided funding in
Navy exercises tenth JHSV construction option
DECEMBER 20, 2012 — Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $166,881,824 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-2217) to exercise the construction option for Joint High Speed Vessel 10. This
Navy takes delivery of JHSV-1
DECEMBER 6, 2012 — The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command yesterday accepted delivery of the Navy’s first joint high-speed vessel at Austal USA’s Mobile, Ala., shipyard. Craig Perciavalle, Sr. Vice President of
Acceptance trials “clean sweep” by JHSV 1
AUGUST 30, 2012 — “I consider it a major accomplishment to be authorized by the Navy to hang a broom from the mast, a Navy tradition representing a ‘clean sweep’ of trial