Naval Technology

India and Australia have commenced the first bilateral maritime exercise, Ausindex15, in Visakhapatnam, India, strengthening defence cooperation between the countries.

Garbarino won a prestigious order in the naval market for a total value of €5m: six littoral combat ships (LCS) with Boustead Naval Shipyard for the Royal Malaysian Navy.

The Canadian Government is procuring a fleet of six ice-capable Harry DeWolf-Class Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) to enhance the Royal Canadian Navy's maritime surveillance capabilities

Northrop Grumman has increased the centre fuselages production interval (PI) for the F-35 Lightning II programme, to focus on affordability.

Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) AMSEC subsidiary has received a contract from the US Navy to deliver support services to its naval ships on behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center.

The Spanish Navy is performing submarine rescue drills as part of the exercise Cartago 2015 off the coast of Murcia, enhancing the crew's ability to address emergency situations.

The US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans is set to begin composite training unit exercise, COMPTUEX.

The UK Royal Navy's Elizabeth-class (QE) aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has switched on the vessel's S1850M radar for the first time and Australia is to invest $65bn on naval shipbuilding projects over 20 years. Naval-technology.com wraps up …

The Amphibious Ready Element onboard the Australian Royal Navy's HMAS Canberra has participated in Exercise Sea Explorer in Far North Queensland.

The US Naval Research Lab and Raytheon have successfully demonstrated captive flights of modular, rapid replacement architecture for electronic warfare (EW) payloads on the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J).

LGS Innovations has secured a contract to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) tactical undersea network architectures (TUNA) programme.

Spanish electronics firm Indra has secured an order to supply German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) with new satellite communications systems for submarines.

The growing importance of Maritime Autonomous Systems will characterise naval activity of the future, according to the Global Marine Trends 2030 (GMT 2030) report launched today.

Aydin Yazilim ve Elektronik San. A.S. (AYESAS) of Turkey is awarded a contract for the delivery of an air traffic management gateway for 11 air command control system (ACCS) LOC1 static sites, by NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency.

The US Navy's Coastal Riverine Group Two has taken delivery of the first of two 12 Mark VI patrol boats, providing the capability of patroling shallow littoral areas.

Orbital ATK has secured a contract worth up to $260m from the US Navy for the fourth and fifth full-rate production lots of the advanced anti-radiation guided missile (AARGM).

Lockheed Martin has secured a $66.3m contract from the US Navy and US Army for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the joint air-to-ground missile (JAGM) programme.

The Nigerian Navy's Eastern Naval Command (ENC) in Cross River State has taken delivery of a new warship, in a bid to enhance its fight against sea piracy and other maritime crimes.

CBG Systems (CBG) has secured a contract with Fincantieri, one of Europe's leading shipbuilding companies, to upgrade vessel HIGHSPEED 5's structural fire protection (SFP) with CBG's state of the art lightweight panelised SFP systems.

The final sections of the UK Royal Navy's second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, have arrived at Babcock Rosyth Facilities from Birkenhead.