BAE San Diego awarded $34.7 million Navy contract

JANUARY 18, 2018 — BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, California, is being awarded a $34,786,558 firm fixedprice delivery order under a multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract (N00024-16-D-4416) for

Modutech Marine delivers first of 24 Cummins powered tugs to Navy

JANUARY 8, 2017 — Modutech Marine Inc., Tacoma, WA, last month delivered the first of 24 tugs, designated Work Boat Medium, to the Navy. The others will follow at regular intervals through

GAO study eyes Immaturity of key Columbia submarine technologies

JANUARY 7, 2018 — A GAO study finds that additional development and testing are required to demonstrate the maturity of several Columbia class submarine technologies that are critical to performance, including the

Podcast: Schoenrock Hydraulik eyes U.S. shipbuilding market

DECEMBER 27, 2017—Despite the overall slump in global shipbuilding, German shipbuilders were able to maintain a strong orderbook in 2017, driven by a buoyant cruise ship sector and Navy vessel construction. The

Austal delivers Expeditionary Fast Transport to Navy

DECEMBER 22, 2017— The U.S. Navy took delivery of the Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel USNS City of Bismarck (EPF 9), following the finalization of documents on board the ship in Mobile, AL.  Built

Newport News awarded $468 million Columbia class contract

DECEMBER 19, 2017 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a contract from General Dynamics Electric Boat worth up to $468 million to begin

Wicker: 355 Navy goal signed into law

DECEMBER 13, 2017 — U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said yesterday that his bicameral, bipartisan “Securing the Homeland by Increasing our Power on the Seas (SHIPS) Act” was signed into law by

New CRS report analyzes what’s involved in getting to 355-ship Navy

NOVEMBER 28, 2017 — The current and planned size and composition of the Navy, the rate of Navy ship procurement, and the prospective affordability of the Navy’s shipbuilding plans have been oversight

BAE Systems gets $8.8 million for amphibious ship work

NOVEMBER 22, 2017—BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair Inc., San Diego, CA, has been awarded an $8,788,214 cost-plus-award-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-2439) by the Naval Sea Systems Command to

Japanese tug loses power, scrapes U.S. Navy destroyer

NOVEMBER 20, 2017 — Another U.S. destroyer has been involved in a collision, but in this case an apparently very minor one. U.S. Seventh Fleet reports that the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold

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