Budget seeks $11.6 billion for nine new Navy ships

FEBRUARY 2, 2015 — Though much of the Obama Administration’s $4 trillion FY 2016 budget request to Congress may be dead on arrival, that’s not necessarily the case with the Navy shipbuilding

Irving gets AOPS build contract, is surface combatant prime

JANUARY 26, 2015 — As expected, Diane Finley, Canada’s Minister of Public Works and Government Services, along with Peter MacKay, Regional Minister for Nova Scotia, on Friday visited Halifax Shipyards to officially

Spanish shipbuilder forms Brazilian subsidiary

JANUARY 26, 2015 — State-owned Spanish shipbuilder Navantia is in process of establishing a subsidiary in Brazil in order to meet Brazilian defense legislation on local content and to position itself for

NASSCO Bremerton gets $33.7 million for Nimitz work

JANUARY 22, 2015 — General Dynamics NASSCO-Bremerton, Bremerton, WA, is being awarded a $33,725,621 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-4321) to accomplish the repair and alterations for the nuclear aircraft carrier USS

Leonard Glenn Francis pleads guilty in Navy bribery case

JANUARY 16, 2015 — The U.S. Department of Justice reports that Leonard Glenn Francis, owner and chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud charges in

Another guilty plea and another indictment in Glenn case

JANUARY 7, 2015 — A commander in the U.S. Navy pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in the Glenn Marine scandal yesterday, while a second U.S. Navy officer was indicted on related

BAE Mayport gets $14.5 million Navy contract mod

JANUARY 4, 2015 — BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards Mayport, LLC, Jacksonville, FL, is being awarded a $14,572,040 modification to a previously awarded contract (N40024-10-C-4406) for the selected restricted availability of the Arleigh

Marine Hydraulics gets $7.1 million Navy contract mod

DECEMBER 30, 2014 — Marine Hydraulics International, Inc., Norfolk, VA, is being awarded a $7,121,874 modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-4405) for USS Truxtun (DDG-103) fiscal 2015 selected restricted availability.  

GD NASSCO wins another Navy MLP contract

DECEMBER 23, 2014—General Dynamics NASSCO, San Diego, CA, will build its fourth Mobile Landing Platform and second configured as an Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) for mine countermeasure (MCM) helicopters and special operations

Tortuga CO and XO relieved of duties

DECEMBER 19, 2014 — The U.S. Navy reports that USS Tortuga’s (LSD 46) Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Thomas Goudreau and Executive Officer, Cmdr. John Fleming, were relieved of their duties December 16, “due

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