Australia puts large autonomous subs on fast track
While the AUKUS plan for Australia to acquire nuclear powered submarines with help from the U.S. and the U.K. appears to be moving right along, the Royal Australian Navy could meantime be
Submarines
Two submarines share dry dock for simultaneous inactivations
Two elderly Los Angeles-class submarines headed for decommissioning — USS Olympia (SSN 717), commissioned in 1984, and USS Louisville (SSN 724), commissioned in 1986, – both entered Dry Dock 5 at Puget
BAE tech will give Navy subs an asymmetric edge
JULY 18, 2017 — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems a $4.6 million contract for its Mobile Offboard Clandestine Communications and Approach (MOCCA) program. The MOCCA
Huntington Ingalls buys underwater vehicles specialist
JANUARY 30, 2015 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) is getting into the unmanned underwater vehicles business. Today it announced that it has acquired the Engineering Solutions Division (ESD) of the Columbia Group.
HII appoints corporate director submarine affairs
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 — Capt. Kevin Brenton (U.S. Navy, Ret.) has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that the company as corporate director of customer affairs for submarine programs. Brenton served
Navy awards $17.8 billion contract to build attack subs
APRIL 28, 2014—The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, CT, a contract valued at $17.6 billion for the construction of 10 additional Virginia-class attack submarines. Under the contract, Electric Boat
Electric Boat gets another $11 million for NEMMI
APRIL 4, 2014 — General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT, is being awarded an $11,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to the previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-4308) to incrementally fund previously exercised options to provide
Charges unsealed in counterfeit semiconductor case
JULY 16, 2013 — Peter Picone, 40, of Methuen, MA, has been charged with importing counterfeit semiconductors from China for sale in the United States. Certain semiconductors sold by Picone were allegedly
Newport News gets $142.7 million contract mod
OCTOBER 25, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $142,719,375 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-2102) for engineering, technical, design, configuration management, integrated logistics support, database management,