Category: Navy
-
GAO: Navy still needs to do more on ship fire prevention
GAO: Navy still needs to do more on ship fire prevention Welding and other hot work involved in U.S. Navy ship maintenance means a significant risk of ship fires. The 2020 fire that gutted the Wasp-class amphibian USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), causing over $3 billion in damage, spurred Navy action to improve fire safety…
-
Wraps come off new Trump-class battleship design
Wraps come off new Trump-class battleship design The last new Navy ship design announced was for a frigate. Yesterday, something considerably large was unveiled: a new class of American-designed battleships —the Trump class — that, says the administration, will be the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed. “As commander in chief, it’s my great honor…
-
Fincantieri: Constellation class cancelations part of a “reshaping” of partnership with the Navy
Fincantieri: Constellation class cancelations part of a “reshaping” of partnership with the Navy Fincantieri has released a statement providing more background on the Navy’s widely-reported decision to cancel four Constellation-class frigates. Released by Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG), the statement says that FMG and the U.S. Navy have reached a “significant agreement that provides for reshaping…
-
Vigor and Samsung Heavy team up for Navy forward-deployed MRO
Vigor and Samsung Heavy team up for Navy forward-deployed MRO Portland, Ore.-headquartered Vigor Marine Group (VMG) and South Korean shipbuilding giant Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have formed a strategic partnership. The collaboration will bring expanded forward-deployedMRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) capacity to the Indo-Pacific region, offering the U.S. Navy and Military Sealift Command (MSC)…
-
Detyens wins $21.1M USNS John Lenthall contract
Detyens wins $21.1M USNS John Lenthall contract Detyens Shipyards Inc., North Charleston, S.C., has been awarded a $21,145,267 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220525C4144) for a 180-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry dock availability of Military Sealift Command’s fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189). Built at Avondale Shipyard, New Orleans, John Lenthall,…
-
NASSCO-Bremerton wins $74.7M CVN 76 contract
NASSCO-Bremerton wins $74.7M CVN 76 contract General Dynamics NASSCO-Bremerton, Bremerton, Wash., has been awarded a $74,868,772 undefinitized contract action resulting in a cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee delivery order for the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Drydocking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) in support of repair and alteration requirements. The DPIA is used to complete all necessary updates, repairs, maintenance…
-
Ingalls christens amphibious transport dock Harrisburg (LPD 30)
Ingalls christens amphibious transport dock Harrisburg (LPD 30) HII (NYSE: HII) christened the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock Harrisburg (LPD 30) January 11 in a ceremony at its Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Miss. LPD 30 is named after Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital city, and commemorates that city’s rich history and longstanding support of the United…
-
New GAO report highlights sorry condition of Navy amphibious warfare ships
New GAO report highlights sorry condition of Navy amphibious warfare ships A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that sixteen out of the 32 ships in the Navy’s amphibious warfare ship fleet are considered to be in “poor material condition” by the service’s own standards. Amphibious warfare ships are critical for Marine Corps…
-
Op-Ed: The degradation and recovery of U.S. shipbuilding
Op-Ed: The degradation and recovery of U.S. shipbuilding by Ted Williams, president of Senesco Marine LLC Global maritime supremacy has been a cornerstone of our national security for decades. However, today, we have not only lost this supremacy, we are not even close to being able to regain it if needed. We are a nation…