Lockheed Martin partners with Vigor for LUSV study
As we reported earlier, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is one of the six companies recently awarded a NAVSEA contract to provide a study as part of the U.S. Navy’s Large Unmanned Surface
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Navy awards $41.9 million in Large Unmanned Surface Vessel study contracts
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded six companies contracts totaling $41,985,112 for studies of a Large Unmanned Surface Vessel. Each contract includes an option for engineering support. If all options were
Navy mobilizes reservists to public shipyards
Faced with an aircraft and submarine maintenance backlog at its four public shipyards, the Navy is mobilizing 1,629 reservists to the yards starting in July. The backlog has developed due to the
Gulf Island to build two more T-ATS vessels
Gulf Island Shipyards LLC, Houma, La., has beem awarded a $129,925,080 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise options for the construction of two additional towing, salvage and rescue ships (T-ATS)
NAVSEA awards VT Halter $2.9 million CHAMP award
VT Halter Marine, Inc. has won a Naval Sea Systems contract worth nearly $2.9 million. VT Halter Marine was one of four U.S.-based companies awarded a contract under the Common Hull Auxiliary
VT Halter starts construction on third Navy berthing barge
VT Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Miss., has started construction on the third Auxiliary Personnel Lighter – Small (APL(S)), a new class of berthing barges commissioned by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).
Gibbs & Cox names Matt Garner Assistant VP Ship Design
Naval architecture and marine engineering firm Gibbs & Cox, Inc., Arlington, Va., has appointed Matthew Garner as its Assistant Vice President, Ship Design. Garner joins Gibbs & Cox following a civil service
Navy shipyard make-overs will start with “digital twins”
A Navy Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) program office set up in June last year is at work on developing, programming and executing the Navy’s recapitalization plan for its four public shipyards. The
Newport News marks a milestone in 3D printing of warship components
JANUARY 29, 2019 — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has marked a milestone in the use of additive manufacturing in the design and fabrication of warship components. It has
VIDEO: Navy approves use of 3D printed part in aircraft carrier
OCTOBER 12, 2018 — Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has approved the first metal part created by additive manufacturing (AM) for shipboard installation. Produced by Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Newport News