Boeing is awarded a US$326 million to develop, integrate and test Increment 3 capabilities into the P-8A aircraft for the US Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
Raytheon Company’s Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) will soon undergo system-level testing at the Surface Combat Systems Center at Wallops Island, Virginia. The 6’ x 6’ rotating array will track a variety of aircraft through the end of 2019.
Raytheon has been awarded a $402 million contract for AN/SPY-6(V) radars low-rate initial production (LRIP) for the US Navy’s DDG 51 Flight III-class ship program, the US company said on March 14.
General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) secured a $2,04 bn US Navy order for the advance purchase of materials for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarines, the US Department of Defense announced yesterday.
The keel of the America-class amphibious warship Bougainville (LHA 8) was authenticated during a ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding on Thursday, March 14.
The US Navy is requesting $205.6 billion for the Fiscal Year 2020, an increase of $9.5 billion (4.6%) from the FY2019. This is the largest budget request in more than 20 years for shipbuilding.
USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) conducted a mobile logistics demonstration with the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14), March 11, in the first of many evolutions designed to evaluate supply ships’ ability to sustain submarine operations in an expeditionary setting.
The U.S. Navy’s Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (IMF) will evaluate and deploy full-body, powered exoskeletons and man-portable inspection robots, for use in naval shipyards.
Northrop Grumman has received a $322.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) program, the US company stated on March 8.
Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) departed San Diego for its first operational underway, the US Navy announced on March 8, 2019.
