PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a $187.46 million advance procurement contract from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead-time material and advance procurement activities for amphibious assault ship LHA 9, the company said in a release. “This contract…
Navy Taps Draper to Support Future USVs
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The U.S. Navy’s future unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) family of systems will set a new standard for navigating in hazardous environments, operating with minimal human control and executing missions further from port than previously imagined, a company…
Burke Leads List as Navy Resumes Flag Officer Announcements
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Defense Department has announced some Navy flag officer nominations, resuming a practice that had been suspended for about a year for cybersecurity reasons. Such lists of names are routinely provided to Congress, but their public announcement had been suspended by previous Chief…
Eastern Shipbuilding Group Performs Keel-Laying for Offshore Patrol Cutter
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Eastern Shipbuilding Group held a keel-laying ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard’s first-of-class offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the Argus, the company said in a release. The April 28 ceremony, at Eastern Shipbuilding’s Nelson Street facility in Panama City, was performed and recorded without an audience to comply with U.S. Centers for Disease…
Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk Returns from Counter-Drug Patrol
KEY WEST, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk crew has returned to their homeport in Key West following a 65-day counter-drug patrol throughout the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean, the Coast Guard said in a release. The Mohawk crew, with a deployed Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical…
Future ‘Workhorse’ Frigate Will Operate Range of Manned, Unmanned Aircraft
ARLINGTON, Va. — The new frigate being designed and built for the U.S. Navy will operate manned and unmanned helicopters from its flight deck and will be able to add new weapon and aviation capabilities as those systems are developed. The Navy…
Geurts: COVID-19 Crisis Offers Opportunity to Strengthen Acquisition, Sustainment
ARLINGTON, Va. — A top U.S. Navy official said acquisition and sustainment could emerge stronger, having withstood disruptions during the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking May 4 as part of a Navy League webinar sponsored by IBM for small businesses in the defense industry, James F. Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for research,…
Larger, More Capable Navy Needed, SECDEF Says
ARLINGTON, Va. — The nation’s top defense official said the U.S. armed forces need to shed some legacy forces for a more modern force, one that includes more modern naval forces. “We need a larger, more capable Navy that can implement distributed lethality…
New CH-53K Simulator Ready for Training
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The H-53 heavy-lift helicopter program office has taken delivery of the first training device for the CH-53K King Stallion helicopter, according to a Naval Air Systems Command release. Delivered April 14, the Containerized Flight Training Device (CFTD) is housed at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina. …
Esper: ‘The Safest Place Is on a Deployed Navy Ship’
ARLINGTON, Va. — The secretary of defense noted May 4 that — with a couple of notable exceptions — the U.S. Navy’s ships at sea remain unaffected by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The statistics show that the safest place to be is on a deployed Navy ship compared to one that’s…
