Naval Technology

The final structural section of the UK Royal Navy's second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, has been installed in place, marking a construction milestone.

The UK Royal Navy's Unmanned Warrior 2016 exercise has been planned the use of a cloud-based geographic information system (GIS), ArcGIS Online, from Esri UK.

The UK Royal Navy's Daring-class air-defence destroyer HMS Diamond has successfully completed six weeks of operational sea training off the coast of Plymouth, UK.

The Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) second Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ship HMAS Adelaide has participated in the tri-service exercise, Sea Explorer, off the North Queensland coast.

The US Navy has received its first air-to-ground network-enabled joint standoff weapon (JSOW C-1) after it achieved initial operational capability (IOC).

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is a next-generation narrowband military satellite communications module being developed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, for the US Navy.

The US Navy has deployed a new AN/SPY-6 radar at the Advanced Radar Development Evaluation Laboratory (ARDEL) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), following completion of Near Field Range testing last month.

Maritime forces from 17 nations and Nato have successfully concluded the 44th iteration of annual multinational naval exercise, Baltops 2016, in the Baltic Sea.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been contracted by the Government of Canada to deliver an advanced broad-area global maritime and Arctic surveillance solution, Polar Epsilon 2 (PE2), to the Department of National Defence (DND).

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Nato has launched the anti-submarine warfare exercise (ASW), Dynamic Mongoose 2016, in Norway, with the support of allied nations.

The US Marine Corps' (USMC) AV-8B Harriers from the Wasp-class amphibious ship USS Boxer (LHD-4) in the Arabian Gulf have joined the fight against terrorist group, ISIS.

Austal has received contract modifications from the US Department of Defence (DoD) to a previously existing contract for littoral combat ships (LCS) for the US Navy.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a €4bn contract with the Qatari Ministry of Defence to construct seven new generation surface vessels for the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces.

The Royal Danish Navy has officially taken delivery of the first three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters from the US Navy during a ceremony.

CAE has received contracts worth C$145m ($112.4m) to develop a naval training centre (NTC) for the UAE Navy and to supply a suite of helicopter simulators and training devices to the UAE Joint Aviation Command (JAC).

The study is based on the analysis of the multi-influence signature generated by the vessels as a basis to classify them.

Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a $427m contract to provide test and evaluation / training threat / target systems (T4S) for warfighter training and debriefing systems to the US Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD).

The world's largest international maritime exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016, is scheduled to begin on 30 June in the waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands and southern California, US.

The US Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) has awarded a $427m, five-year contract to Jacobs Engineering Group to provide systems engineering services for warfighter training and weapons systems.