Naval News takes you aboard USS John L. Canley (ESB 6), the newest commissioned Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) in the U.S. Navy fleet and the sixth ship in the expeditionary mobile base platform.
General Dynamics NASSCO christened the USNS John L. Canley (ESB 6), the fourth ship for the U.S. Navy’s reclassified Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) program, on 25 June 2022.
The keel for the future USS John L. Canley (ESB 6), the US Navy’s 4th ESB, was laid at GD-NASSCO shipyard in San Diego on April 30.
The U.S. Navy awarded a $6.75 billion block buy contract to General Dynamics NASSCO for the procurement of up to eight John Lewis-class (TAO-205) Fleet Replenishment Oilers.
NASSCO christened and launched the future USNS Robert F. Kennedy (T-AO 208), the fourth ship for the U.S. Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet oiler program, on October 28, 2023.
The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the second of the John Lewis-class of underway replenishment oilers, USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206)
General Dynamics NASSCO, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, announced on 05 August 2022 that it's been awarded USD 1.4 billion in contract modifications from the US Navy to build a sixth expeditionary seagoing vessel (ESB 8) and two additional John Lewis-class fleet oilers (T- AO 211 and 212).
General Dynamics NASSCO christened and launched the future USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206) on 6 November 2021. It is the second ship for the U.S. Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet oiler program.
The U.S. Senate passed its version of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), increasing Department of Defense spending to $886 billion.
General Dynamics NASSCO has announced the start of construction on the future USNS Sojourner Truth, the sixth ship in the T- AO Fleet Oiler program (T- AO 210).
