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Several lawmakers have concerns about the Navy’s proposal to buy Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) from the two competitors, putting into question whether the service will receive the blessing it wants from Congress before the...
Rather than selecting one team to build 10 ships, the Navy will instead award construction contracts to both Lockheed Martin and Austal USA. see recent articles from : 101106 Marinette Marine celebrates long wait...
Rival teams from Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting all year to see which of their designs would be chosen for the Navy’s littoral combat ship competition. Now, if the Navy gets...
Littoral Combat Ship plan has changed once again. On September 16, 2009, the Navy announced a proposed new LCS acquisition strategy. Under the strategy, the Navy would hold a competition to pick a single...
The Navy’s close-lipped effort to pick a winning design for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is generating more rumors than Lindsay Lohan’s love-life. Maybe it’s the approaching mid-term elections or maybe it’s the...
For the first time, the U.S. Navy has successfully tracked targets with a multiband radar featuring a common radar suite controller. This milestone, which took place at the Navy’s Engineering Test Center, Wallops Island,...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command for additional AN/SPQ-9B shipboard radar systems. Under the fixed-price $41.4 million contract option, Northrop Grumman’s Maritime Systems facility in Melville,...
Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC), Fincantieri’s US subsidiary, and Boeing have announced that Oceaneering International are to enter the team set up a year ago with a view to competing for the imminent tender for...
The Lockheed Martin-led industry team submitted its proposal for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fiscal year 2010-2014 contract to the U.S. Navy today. Lockheed Martin is one of two industry teams competing for the...
The U.S. Navy sees the launch and recovery of smaller boats as a “major risk” to both competing designs for its new Littoral Combat Ship program, a congressional watchdog agency said on Tuesday. The...
Analysts say high-stakes competition pitting Austal against Lockheed Martin could end with protest similar to tanker contest By the Navy’s calendar, a winner-take-all order for up to 10 new littoral combat ships is supposed...
Marinette Marine Corporation, the FINCANTIERI’s American subsidiary, will built an oceanografic research vessel capable of working in icy artic waters (Alaska Region Vessel – ARRV) for the University of Fairbanks, Alaska. The vessel will...
Shipbuilding partners Austal USA and General Dynamics have agreed to revoke their teaming arrangement on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program – a move that positions Austal to bid as a prime contractor on...
* Navy aims to move away from system integrators * Could stage competition for combat systems later Cost will be the critical factor the U.S. Navy uses to judge competing designs from General Dynamics...
Thales introduces the I-Mast 100 integrated sensor and communication system for naval vessels. I-Mast 100 is a central mast structure that houses all of a ship’s radar and optronic sensors, most of the communication...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company two contracts that extend the company’s legacy of performance and support for the Aegis weapons system. Under the contracts, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will provide an...