************* NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Navy is conducting an integration study for arming its P-8A maritime patrol aircraft with the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile – Extended Range (AARGM-ER), a Navy program official said. Capt. Alex Dutko, program manager…
Textron Developing New Unmanned MAGNUSS Minesweeping Technology
*************** ARLINGTON, Va. — The technology to sweep sea mines without endangering Sailors has made another advance with a recent contract award to Textron Systems Corporation for the development of the Magnetic and Acoustic Generation Next Unmanned Superconducting Sweep (MAGNUSS)…
Navy Commissions First LCS with New GE Composite Engine Enclosure
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The littoral combat ship (LCS) commissioned April 1 is the first equipped with the new lightweight gas turbine engine enclosure designed by GE Marine to provide greater safety and more comfortable engineering spaces for Sailors, a…
Navy Orders Third Lot of Next-Generation Jammer Pods
***** ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy has placed an order with Raytheon for the third lot of ALQ-249 Next-Generation Jammer-Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) pods. The Naval Air Systems Command awarded a $650 million fixed-price incentive (firm target) and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to…
Navy to Commission Future Littoral Combat USS Ship Santa Barbara
Release from the Department of the Navy ***** MARCH 31, 2023 The Navy will commission the future USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) as the newest Independence- variant littoral combat ship (LCS) during a 10:00 a.m. PST ceremony on Saturday, April…
Raytheon Technologies awarded $619 million US Navy contract for SPY-6 family of radars
Release from Raytheon Technologies ***** Contract includes the first Flight IIA destroyers to be modernized with an upgraded radar TUCSON, Ariz., (March 29, 2023) —Raytheon Technologies was awarded a $619 million contract to continue to produce AN/SPY-6(V) radars for the…
Congressman Questions Navy’s Delay in Super Hornet Contract
***** WASHINGTON — The delay in the Navy’s award of a contract for the service’s final procurement of 20 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters is exacerbating the service’s strike fighter shortage, a congressman said, and is reducing the Navy’s future…
Navy moves forward with hypersonic, carrier-based weapon
Release from Naval Air Systems Command ***** Mar 28, 2023 NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, Patuxent River, Md. — The Navy awarded two contracts to Raytheon Missiles and Defense and Lockheed Martin March 27 for the initial development for a carrier suitable…
U.S. Navy Launches USNS Cody
Release from Naval Sea Systems Command ***** By Team Ships Public Affairs MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Navy’s newest Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel, USNS Cody (EPF 14), launched at Austal USA’s shipyard, Mar. 20. Capable of transporting 600 tons…
Navy Decommissions Last Coastal Patrol Ships
***** ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy has decommissioned its last two Cyclone-class patrol coastal ships in March 28 ceremonies at Naval Support Activity, Bahrain, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs said in a release. The USS Monsoon (PC…
