GAO reports on Navy ship repair contracting strategy
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 — In 2015 the U.S. Navy introduced a new contracting strategy for ship repair, called Multiple Award Contract, Multi Order (MAC-MO). A report to Congress by the GAO finds
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Another “Fat Leonard” case guilty plea
NOVEMBER 16, 2016 — Retired Navy Captain Michael Brooks yesterday pleaded guilty in relation to his role in the massive bribery and fraud scandal known in Navy circles as “the Fat Leonard
TAO-205 oilers to have Rolls-Royce propellers and gensets
OCTOBER 17, 2016 — Rolls-Royce has secured a contract to supply diesel generators, propellers and shaft lines for the U.S. Navy’s new T-AO 205 class of fleet oilers, the John Lewis Class,
Another Navy officer pleads guilty in Fat Leonard case
OCTOBER 17, 2016 — U.S. Navy lieutenant commander Gentry Debord, 41, has become the latest Navy officer to enter a guilty plea in the so-called “Fat Leonard” affair. Debord, who is based
ONR sponsors barnacle busting hydrogel research
OCTOBER 14, 2016 — Individually, barnacles may be tiny, but when clustered in thick clumps on a vessel’s hull as biofouling they can slow the ship and increase its fuel consumption by
VIDEO: U.S. Navy strikes Red Sea radar sites
OCTOBER 13, 2016 — The Navy has taken out three radar sites in territory controlled by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The action comes after recent missile attacks threatening U.S. naval vessels and other
Hornbeck gets extension of blocking vessel contract
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 – Hornbeck Offshore Operators LLC, Covington, LA, is being awarded a $28,056,820 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N62387-15-C-2507) to exercise a one-year option period for the operation
Vigor Marine wins $7 million Navy contract
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 — Vigor Marine, Portland, Oregon, has been awarded a $7,066,873 firm-fixed-price contract for an emergent dry-docking of USS Howard (DDG-83) to accomplish repairs to the port controllable pitch propeller
Future USS Zumwalt suffers engineering casualty
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 — The Navy’s most technologically advanced surface ship, the future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), has suffered an engineering casualty, reports the U.S. Naval Institute The next-generation destroyer, which left
Austal USA awarded $248.8 million EPF contract
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 — Austal USA, Mobile, AL, is being awarded a $248,898,142 modification to previously awarded Navy contract N00024-16-C-2217. The award covers the design and construction of two Expeditionary Fast Transport