SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 — Following the recent engineering casualty on the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), Commander, Naval Surface Forces, Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, ordered an engineering stand down for
AUGUST 29, 2016 — Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP) is investigating a July 11 incident in which the Navy’s first littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) experienced a
AUGUST 16, 2016 —The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Detroit (LCS 7) in a ceremony at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard, Aug. 12. Detroit is the eighth littoral combat ship
JULY 28, 2016 — USS Coronado (LCS 4), an Independence variant LCS built by shipbuilder Austal USA, successfully executed the first live fire over-the-horizon missile test using a Harpoon Block IC missile
JULY 20, 2016 —Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) reports that the Independence variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson (LCS 6) has successfully completed Full Ship Shock Trials (FSST) off the coast of
JULY 19, 2016 —The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led industry team yesterday officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s 17th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Indianapolis, in a ceremony at
JULY 11, 2016 — Lockheed Martin, Mission Systems and Training, Baltimore, MD, is being awarded $10,676,521 for cost-plus-award-fee order ER06 against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-15-G-2303) to provide engineering and
JULY 5, 2016 — The good news from Austal is that there have been “favorable preliminary results” from the three Full Scale Shock Trials of LCS 6 — the first aluminum trimaran
MAY 16, 2016 — Austal USA reports that Littoral Combat Ship Montgomery (LCS 8), the fourth Independence-variant LCS built at its Mobile, AL, shipyard, successfully completed its acceptance trials May 6, 2016,
MAY 6, 2016 — A deployed U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship is to be fitted with a Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) system for a Phase II testing of the long range
