The French Navy (Marine Nationale) fourth and final Loire-class vessel, “Garonne”, entered “active duty” (admission au service actif in French) on January 8, 2020.
ECA Group, an expert in robotics, automated systems, simulation and industrial processes, will build its new plant in the port of Ostend in order to carry out the contract to supply their unmanned systems for the 12 minesweepers of the Belgian and Dutch navies.
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) expanded its submarine production facilities as a first step in securing competitiveness, the shipyard said in a statement.
OSI Maritime Systems (OSI) is pleased to announce that it has entered in to a strategic partnership wit h PGZ Stocznia Wojenna Shipyard (PGZ SW), l ocated in Gdynia, Poland to provide Integrated Navigation and Tactical Systems (INTS) to the Polish Navy. Its first contract is for the Kormoran program, vessels two and three (ORPs ‘Albatros’ and ‘Mewa’).
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) concluded a series of flight demonstrations using its MQ-9 Guardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) on December 19, 2019.
Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24 mine hunting sonar recently completed initial in-water testing of a next-generation Deploy and Retrieval (D&R) payload, the US company announced on January 6, 2020.
BAE Systems has received a $175 million contract from the U.S. Navy to modernize the guided-missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG 69).
The US Fleet Forces Command last month issued a notice asking the service’s surface force to develop a concept of operations (CONOPS) for the large and medium unmanned surface vessels currently in development.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that High Cycle Testing of its Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) system for Ford-class aircraft carriers was successfully completed over a two-day period in October 2019 at the Runway Arrested Landing Site (RALS) in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Here is NavalNews.com’s eleventh monthly report (December 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.
