Release from RTX ***** ADVEW will replace legacy systems with a one-box solution GOLETA, Calif., Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The United States Navy awarded Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) Business, an $80 million contract in a down select to prototype Advanced Electronic Warfare,…
USCGC Active Returns Home After Counternarcotics Patrol in Eastern Pacific Ocean
Release from the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area ***** Dec. 20, 2023 PORT ANGELES, Wash. – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active and crew returned to its home port, Tuesday, after a 57-day patrol in support of Joint Interagency Task…
U.S. Navy Successfully Completes Large Unmanned Surface Vessel Testing Milestone
Release from Naval Sea Systems Command ***** Dec. 20, 2023 By Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy successfully completed a milestone “no touch” 720-hour continuous power demonstration of a diesel generator for Unmanned Surface…
USS John L. Canley to Be Commissioned in San Diego
Release from Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet ***** USS John L. Canley to Be Commissioned in San Diego By Julie Ann Ripley 15 December 2023 SAN DIEGO — The future USS John L. Canley (ESB 6) will join…
MSC Reservists Support Operation Deep Freeze 2024 Loadout
***** MSC Reservists Support Operation Deep Freeze 2024 Loadout From Sarah Cannon, Military Sealift Command Pacific UNITED STATES — Navy reservists from Military Sealift Command Pacific’s Expeditionary Port Unit (EPU) 114 are conducting cargo operations in Port Hueneme, Calif., overseeing the…
Marine Corps Awards Leidos Contract for Air Defense Radar
Release from Leidos ***** Leidos demonstrated the Marine Expeditionary Long-Range Persistent Surveillance (MELPS) prototype at last year’s Project Convergence 2022 in the San Diego area. Photo: Leidos Huntsville, Ala. (Nov. 27, 2023) – Leidos, a Fortune 500 science and technology company, announced…
Senate Confirms Navy’s New Acquisition Boss
***** The U.S. Senate has confirmed the Department of the Navy’s acquisition boss. Nickolas H. Guertin, the Defense Department’s director of Operational Trest and Evaluation, has cleared the hurdles to become the new assistant secretary of the Navy for Research,…
Navy Announces Flag Officer Assignments
***** ARLINGTON, Va. — The secretary of the Navy and chief of naval operations announced on Dec. 18, 2023, the following assignments: Rear Adm. (lower half) Amy N. Bauernschmidt is assigned as deputy commander, Seventh Fleet, Yokosuka, Japan. Rear Adm….
Bollinger Shipyards Delivers First Bollinger-Built Berthing and Messing Barge to U.S. Navy
Release from Bollinger Shipyards ***** PASCAGOULA, Miss., — (December 18, 2023) – Last week, Bollinger Shipyards (“Bollinger”) delivered the first Bollinger-built Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) Class berthing and messing barge (APL 71) to the U.S. Navy. APL 71 is the 5th…
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Seizes Illegal Narcotics in Gulf of Oman
Release from U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs ***** By U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs | December 15, 2023 MANAMA, Bahrain — A U.S. Coast Guard ship seized illegal drugs worth over $6 million from a fishing vessel…
