The United States Secretary of the Navy announced on 5 December that European shipbuilder Damen had been chosen in the competitive process to supply the design for the new Landing Ship Medium vessels.
Carrier Air Wing 17 has returned to its home stations after a nine month mission across the U.S. 3rd, 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation.
Lockheed Martin has marked seventy years of work on the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile programme, highlighting the system’s role as the most survivable part of the nuclear triad.
Fincantieri and the U.S. Navy have agreed to reshape the future of the Constellation-class programme following the Navy’s wider decision to move towards new classes of warships that can be built and delivered more rapidly.
GE Aerospace’s Marine Engines and Systems division marked a major milestone on 15 November as the USS Pierre (LCS 38) was commissioned in Panama City, Florida.
The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of the future USS Cleveland (LCS 31), the last Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, from Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin on 26 November.
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract to provide Stand Off Jamming Jets Services training to the Navy and Marine Corps from 2025 to 2030.
The U.S. Navy has cancelled the final four planned Constellation-class frigates, confirming that only Constellation and Congress will be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine under a revised agreement.
BAE Systems has received a 22 million dollar contract from the U.S. Navy to produce missile canisters for the Mk 41 Vertical Launching System.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has completed the final round of sea trials for the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128).
The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Massachusetts (SSN 798) on 21 November from HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia.
Scientists from Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic recovered the unmanned surface vessel Lightfish in Troia, Portugal, on 9 September after its solo transatlantic crossing.
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