Honolulu, Hawaii, headquartered Navatek LLC has been awarded an $8 million contract from the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) for advanced planing hull research. It will focus on pursuing new
MAY 29, 2018 — Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded a $1.25 million grant by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to undertake research in
MARCH 19, 2017 — The Sally Ride, a Neil Armstrong Class Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) vessel, drydocked at Bay Ship and Yacht, Alameda, CA, on April 15, 2017. In additional to
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
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 — Remember the Susitna? It’s the multipurpose ferry built at Alaska Ship and Drydock’s Ketchikan Shipyard (now Vigor Alaska) for Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough with the help of Defense budget
FEBRUARY 28, 2014 — Dakota Creek Industries (DCI) launched the oceanographic research ship R/V Neil Armstrong (AGOR 27) at its Anacortes, WA, shipyard on February 22nd, 2014. Construction of the R/V Neil
FEBRUARY 21, 2012 — Rolls-Royce reports that has delivered the new and advanced Axial Mk1 waterjets for the Navy’s fifth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Milwaukee, the latest Freedom-variant LCS (see earlier story)
FEBRUARY 6, 2013 — The Navy’s fifth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Milwaukee, will be the first to have new high-power density waterjets aimed at staving off rudder and propeller damage experienced on
