SSN 805 keel authentication

GD Electric Boat lays keel for SSN 805

Senior Navy leaders and shipbuilders gathered at General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, yesterday, to attend a keel-laying ceremony for the future Virginia-class submarine USS Tang (SSN 805), Aug. 17.

Navy will procure more Flight II vessels through multi-year contracts

Navy awards multi-year contracts for nine Flight III destroyers

The Navy yesterday awarded multi-year construction contracts for nine DDG 51 class destroyers. Three will be built at GD Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, one each in FY 2023, 2024, and 2026.

Signing ceremony for acceptance of first Flight III destroyer

Navy takes delivery of first Flight III destroyer

The Navy accepted delivery of the future guided missile destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), its first Flight III destroyer, from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division on June 27.

YRBM barge

Navy exercises $18.3 million YRBM barge option at Conrad

Morgan City, La., headquartered Conrad Shipyard LLC has been awarded a $18,293,952 firm-fixed-price modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-22-C-2253 for the detail design and construction of one additional YRBM barge (more formally, a

Fairbanks Morse Defense is partnering with Marand

FMD and Oceus to co-develop secure portable 5G broadband solution

Beloit, Wis., based Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), an Arcline Investment Management portfolio company, and Herndon, Va., headquartered 5G broadband connectivity specialist Oceus have signed a three-year agreement . It will see them

May 2023 Marine Log cover featuring government shipbuilding

May 2023

What are shipyards putting in and on newbuild vessels for both commercial and government projects? Find out this and more in the May issue of Marine Log.

Bonhomme Richard ship fire

GAO: Navy needs to up ship fire prevention efforts

According to the Navy, more than $4 billion in estimated total damage resulted from 15 major fire incidents that occurred onboard ships undergoing maintenance from May 2008 through July 2020. Two ships

USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53)

Vigor gets another $10.3 million for USS John Paul Jones work

Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Ore., has been awarded a $10,309,313 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract N4523A22C0552 for the procurement of 14 out of scope work specifications for repair, maintenance and modernization

Top Women in Maritime

Top Women in Maritime 2022 video debuts at TTB

Every year, Marine Log’s editorial team carefully selects 20 women of varied backgrounds, ages and locations as its Top Women in Maritime based on nominations submitted by those in the industry. In

Planned five-year Pearl Harbor dry dock replacement project will construct a new graving dock at PHNSY

$2.8 billion award kicks off Pearl Harbor dry dock project

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Pacific has awarded a $2.8-billion task order under a previously-awarded contract to Dragados/Hawaiian Dredging/Orion JV, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, to replace Dry Dock 3 at Pearl

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