The Estonian Navy welcomes a hybrid patrol boat into service while the Royal Canadian Navy’s newest offshore patrol ship is nearing delivery. The US Navy names a future ..
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Arleigh Burke destroyers Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) and the Legend-class cutter Calhoun (WMSL-759) at Ingalls Shipbuilding on Aug. 4, 2022. USNI News Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy is keeping a two-ship-per-year cadence for its destroyer line because that’s a realistic goal for industry to work toward, according to the Pentagon’s top budget officer.
Despite Congress’ push for the Navy to start buying three Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers per year,...
https://news.usni.org/2023/03/21/osd-comptroller-says-u-s-shipyards-cant-build-3-destroyers-a-year
The Navy is awarding both General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW), and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding contracts for shipbuilder engineering and design analysis in order to produce design products in support of the DDG(X) Guided Missile Destroyer preliminary design and contract design.
The Navy says the specific contract award amounts are considered source-selection sensitive information and will not be made public at this time.
The work is expected to be completed by July...
Notional Navy DDG(X) hull design. PEO Ships Image
The Navy on Friday announced contract awards to HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding and General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works to work on the design and engineering of the service’s next-generation guided-missile destroyer, also known as DDG(X).
The award is for the “shipbuilder engineering and design analysis in order to produce design products in support of the Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG(X)) preliminary design and contract design,” according to the July...
Dirk Lesko, whose retirement as president of GD’s Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine, in April caught many by surprise, is to assume the role of president of Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding Inc., effective September 1, 2022, the company announced today.
Lesko will succeed another American, Kevin Mooney, whose resignation from Irving last month for personal reasons was also unexpected. In fact, Lesko will be the third American in a row to be Irving Shipbuilding’s president. Mooney’s predecessor...
The US Navy christened the future guided missile destroyer USS Carl M. Levin in a ceremony on Saturday, October 2. Built by General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine, the ..
The U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office Ships (PEO Ships) reports that the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002) recently conducted builder’s trials. The ship is the third and final vessel in the stealthy-looking Zumwalt class of guided missile destroyers.
Builder’s trials consist of a series of in-port and at-sea demonstrations that allow the shipbuilder, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and the U.S. Navy to assess the ship’s systems.
“Trials provide an opportunity for the Navy and industry...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/ddg-1002-conducts-builders-trials/
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) began conducting sea trials of the US Navy’s third and final Zumwalt-class stealth destroyer on Friday, August 27. The trials ..
The keel of the future US Navy destroyer Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. was ceremoniously laid at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works’ (BIW) shipyard, on Tuesday, April 6. The ..
The US Navy took delivery of the guided missile destroyer Daniel Inouye from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works on Monday, March 8. Prior to delivery, the ship successfully ..