• First Virginia Payload Module Delivered

    Press Release
    Section 2B/5 — including the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) — of the future Virginia-class guided-missile submarine (SSGN 803) recently made its way from Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to Groton, Connecticut — marking the largest Virginia-class shipment ever transported. At 184 feet and featuring the first ever VPM, this delivery is…

  • Austal USA Receives Contract for First Use of Newly Certified Dry Dock

    Press Release
    MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA received a contract, valued at $10.8 million, awarded by the Navy for emergent maintenance drydocking availability of USS Oakland (LCS 24). To perform the contract, Austal USA will use its newly certified floating dry dock, located at Austal USA’s San Diego waterfront ship repair facility. …

  • Raise Robotics Developing Robots for Shipyard Coating Work

    Richard R. Burgess
    ARLINGTON, Va. — A California-based company is developing its robotics technology to go from building construction to hazardous coating applications and more for shipbuilding and ship repair. Raise Robotics, a four-year-old corporation headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in robotics that take on dangerous work in building high-rise structures and other…

  • Navy Awards First Production Contract for MQ-25A Stingray

    Navy Public Affairs
    The U.S. Navy awarded a Fixed Price Incentive contract to The Boeing Company, for the MQ-25A Stingray Lot 1 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), valued at $562,000,000. The contract provides the funds for three LRIP Lot 1 MQ-25As and additional funding for the advanced acquisition of long lead components to…
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