From FRCE Southeast, May 13, 2025 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In November 2024, Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) stood up repair capability for a T-45 Goshawk service life extension program (SLEP) production line supporting the Naval Undergraduate Flight Training Systems Program…
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul Scores Another Bust
By U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command / U.S. 4th Fleet Public Affairs, 13 May 2025 CARIBBEAN SEA – The littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) interdicted a suspected drug smuggling vessel May 1 while supporting Joint Interagency Task…
Surface Sailors Level-up, Control the Air
By MC1 Kelby Sanders, COMNAVSURFPAC Public Affairs, May 2, 2025 SAN DIEGO, California — Since the latest outbreak of conflict in and around the Red Sea in October of 2023, several U.S. Navy ships operating within carrier strike groups have…
Austal USA Welcomes Rear Admiral Jonathan Rucker
From Austal USA MOBILE, Ala. – Austal USA welcomed Rear Admiral (RADM) Jonathan Rucker, PEO Attack Submarines, at the company’s Mobile, Ala. shipyard yesterday. RADM Rucker began his visit by addressing more than 200 members of the Austal USA and…
HII Welcomes High School Seniors to Shipbuilding Careers at Newport News Shipbuilding
From HII NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — More than two dozen high school seniors know what they’ll be doing after graduation this year, after accepting offers to begin their shipbuilding careers at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Newport…
Philippines, U.S. Conclude Exercise Balikatan 25
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) hosted the closing ceremony of Exercise Balikatan 25 on May 9, marking the successful completion of the largest annual combined military exercise between the Philippines and the…
BAE Systems Awarded Additional $172M Full-Rate ACV Production Contract
From BAE Systems May 1, 2025 – BAE Systems received a $172 million full-rate production (FRP) contract to produce 30 additional Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACVs) as part of the recently awarded FRP 5/6 contract. The FRP 5/6 contract includes…
Danish Armed Forces to Begin Operational Testing of Saildrone USVs
Four Saildrone Voyagers will be deployed in Danish waters in June 2025. From Saildrone, May 8, 2025 COPENHAGEN, Denmark–Saildrone is proud to announce its partnership with the Danish Armed Forces in a groundbreaking initiative to enhance maritime surveillance and intelligence…
Coast Guard Offloads $5.4M in Seized Cocaine Following Interdiction off Puerto Rico
From U.S. Coast Guard 7th District, May 7, 2025 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier offloaded approximately 725 pounds of seized cocaine worth an estimated $5.4 million to Coast Guard Investigative Service…
Coast Guard Offloads Over $12M in Illicit Drugs Interdicted in Caribbean Sea
From U.S. Coast Guard 7th District MIAMI – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa’s crew ended Fleet Week Fort Lauderdale with the offload of approximately 3,750 pounds of cocaine and marijuana worth an estimated $12.3 million, Wednesday, at Port Everglades. The…
