Naval Technology

The US Navy's USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has completed its four-year long refuelling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding facility in Newport News, Virginia.

UK-based Kongsberg Maritime camera systems group has supplied a new large network Internet Protocol (IP) closed-circuit television (CCTV) system to be deployed aboard the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) new auxiliary naval replenishment ship.

SAES, the only Spanish company that supplies anti-submarine-warfare systems (ASW), has been involved in meetings with important companies of the aerospace sector.

Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first short take-off / vertical landing version of the F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter from its Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility at Cameri Air Base in northern Italy.

Rolls-Royce has entered an agreement with Indian shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) to assemble MTU Series 4000 engines for naval vessels in India.

Personnel from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have joined the US and the Philippines forces to participate in the 33rd iteration of Exercise Balikatan 2017.

Testing for the US Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle increment 1.1 programme is now underway, with contenders lining up to replace the force’s battle-weary Assault Amphibious Vehicle fleet. Two teams have been awarded EMD contracts for the comp…

As things stand, 2018 will see the Royal Navy’s Harpoon (Block 1C) missile – the sole heavyweight anti-ship missile system in its service – retire without replacement, leaving the UK with a serious under-capacity to perform the most fundamental of al…

The Republic of Singapore Navy's (RSN) first Independence-class littoral mission vessel (LMV), RSS Independence, has been successfully commissioned into service at Changi Naval Base.

Shipbuilding company Austal is set to open a new design and project management office in Adelaide, South Australia.

The Directorate-General for Armaments (DGA) has awarded a contract to arms industry company DCNS for the upgrade of three of the French Navy's five La Fayette frigates (FLF).

The SENER engineering and technology group has signed a partnership agreement with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Naval Architecture at the Unive…

The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Point Mugu, California, has selected LCR Embedded Systems for the supply of its new 3U VPX solution.

Science Applications International (SAIC) has received a task order from the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Pacific to provide comprehensive cyber support and protection services to the US Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Comman…

Raytheon Missile Systems has secured a contract modification worth $78.72m for the sustainment of the AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II tactical missiles operated by the US Air Force, US Navy and other foreign militaries.

The US Navy has launched its future America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) after completing the transition from land to the dry dock at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) shipyard.

Raytheon has secured a $327.14m fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification to a previously awarded contract to begin low-rate initial production of AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defence radars (AMDRs).

CBG Systems is pleased to announce that it has secured a contract for the manufacture and supply of Moonraker's antenna systems for the Italian Naval law programme.

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has presented its report on the competitive evaluation process to select a successful international partner for the country’s Future Submarine programme.

US Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) sailors have developed a new use for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to maintain a visual on the sailors at sea, especially during man-overboard situations.