MIAMI — The Coast Guard interdicted nine Cuban migrants 25 miles southeast of Tavernier Creek on Jan. 2, the Coast Guard 7th District said in a release. Coast Guard Sector Key West watchstanders received a notification via radio of a migrant…
Coast Guard Vessel Capsizes in Oregon
ASTORIA, Ore. — A 26-foot Coast Guard trailerable aids to navigation boat capsized Jan. 4 with four crew members aboard near Pier 39 in Astoria, the Coast Guard 13th District said in a release. Four Coast Guardsmen were aboard the vessel conducting routine operations when the…
General Atomics Advanced Arresting Gear Completes Critical High-Cycle Testing
SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that high cycle testing of its Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) system for Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers was successfully completed over a two-day period in October at the Runway Arrested Landing Site (RALS) in Lakehurst, New Jersey. High cycle testing…
Coast Guard Cutter Crew Offloads 18,000 Pounds of Cocaine in San Diego
SAN DIEGO — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf offloaded about 18,000 pounds of cocaine on Dec. 18 seized from known drug-transit zones of the eastern Pacific Ocean worth approximately $312 million. The interdictions were made between mid-October and early December by…
General Dynamics Wins Contract to Continue Navy Submarine Fire Control Systems Modernization, Maintenance
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The U.S. Navy awarded a contract to General Dynamics Mission Systems that continues a broad scope of work for fire control systems and subsystems aboard U.S. Navy and United Kingdom’s Royal Navy nuclear ballistic-missile submarines (SSBN), the company said in a…
Navy Awards Contract to BAE for Thousands of APKWS Rockets
HUDSON, N.H. — BAE Systems announced that the U.S. Navy has signed a $2.68 billion contract for the purchase of thousands of additional APKWS laser-guided rockets, the company said in a release. “Our armed forces customers are looking to apply just the right…
Oshkosh Awarded $803.9 Million JLTV Order
OSHKOSH, Wis. — U.S. Army Contracting Command-Warren has placed an $803.9 million order to Oshkosh Defense for 2,721 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs). Additional orders from the U.S. Army Contracting Command are anticipated within this fiscal year. This order includes JLTVs…
Textron’s Next-Generation SSC Completes Navy Acceptance Trials
NEW ORLEANS — Textron Systems announced in a Dec. 17 release the successful completion by its first next-generation landing craft, Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), Craft 100 of the U.S. Navy’s acceptance trials after completing a series of in-port and underway demonstrations on Dec. 6. “Our customers depend…
HII Launches Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Nine days after christening the U.S. Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division launched John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) into the James River for the first time on Dec. 16, the company said in…
Future USS St. Louis Completes Acceptance Trials
MARINETTE, Wis. — The future USS St. Louis has completed acceptance trials in Lake Michigan, Lockheed Martin said in a release. Now that trials are complete, the ship will undergo final outfitting and fine-tuning before delivery. LCS 19 is the tenth Freedom-variant LCS designed and built by the…
