By Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor ARLINGTON, Va. — A global Information technology company has expanded its products in recent years to provide tailored digital enterprise software to shipbuilders, ship repair yards, air arms, and airlines. IFS is a global…
U.S. Navy Conducts Successful Live-Fire Demonstration at RIMPAC 2024
By From: Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) Public Affairs, July 22, 2024 HONOLULU, Hawaii – The U.S. Navy achieved a significant milestone at the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise with the successful launching and testing of…
New DOD Strategy Calls for Enhancements, Engagements, Exercises in Arctic
July 22, 2024 | By C. Todd Lopez, DoD News The Defense Department today released its 2024 Arctic Strategy. The strategy acknowledges how environmental changes are affecting the Arctic region, details the implications for U.S. security and spells out how the department…
GA-ASI SeaGuardian Featured Again at RIMPAC Exercise
U.S. Navy Rim of Pacific Exercise Is World’s Largest Maritime Exercise From General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. SAN DIEGO – 23 July 2024 – An MQ-9B SeaGuardian Unmanned Aircraft System from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is once again…
Worldwide C-130J Super Hercules Fleet Soars Past 3 Million Flight Hours
From Lockheed Martin, July 22, 2024 FARNBOROUGH, England, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today at the Farnborough International Airshow that the worldwide C-130J Super Hercules fleet recently surpassed 3 million flight hours. With 545+ Super Hercules delivered worldwide,…
ONR Awards Benedict College and Integer Technologies Partnership $7.9M Contract for Research and Workforce Development
Funding for Tech and Talent to Secure Autonomous Systems Against Cyberattack COLUMBIA, S.C. — July 23, 2024 — Benedict College and Integer Technologies announce that the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a $7.9 million contract to increase the cyber…
Tethered Drone Extends Line-of-Sight Communications for Surface Platforms
General Dynamics Mission Systems’ Containerized Tethered Elevated Mast (C-TEM) shipboard tethered unmanned aerial system solution will extend line-of-sight communication for U.S. Navy ships and unmanned surface vessels. General Dynamics Mission Systems is a mission integrator for the Navy’s hybrid fleet…
Undeterred: Baltimore Coast Guard Yard Work Continues Despite Bridge Collapse
On March 26, a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. The catastrophe halted marine traffic to and from the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports in the United States, for nearly two…
SECNAV Names Navy’s Newest Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship Lansing
From SECNAV Public Affairs, 22 July 2024 Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that a future Expeditionary Fast Transport, EPF 16, will be named USNS Lansing, July 22. LANSING, Michigan (July 22, 2024) – Secretary of the Navy…
Coast Guard holds commissioning ceremony for Marine Safety Unit Lake Worth
From U.S. Coast Guard 7th District, July 20, 2024 Miami 𑁋 Lt. Giacomo Terrizzi III assumed command of the newly established Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Lake Worth, Friday, as the unit’s first commanding officer during an assumption of command…
