Navantia

Lockheed Martin Won’t Submit Freedom LCS Design for FFG(X) Contest

Lockheed Martin FFG(X) design. Lockheed Martin Image

Lockheed Martin won’t submit a bid to compete in the design of the Navy’s next-generation guided-missile (FFG(X)) frigate competition, company officials told USNI News on Tuesday.

The company elected to focus on its involvement developing the frigate combat system and other systems rather than forward its Freedom-class LCS design for the detailed design and construction contract Naval Sea Systems Command plans to issue this summer, Joe...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/28/lockheed-martin-wont-submit-freedom-lcs-design-for-ffgx-contest

Navy Budgeting $1.3B for First FFG(X) Hull; 9 Planned Over the Next Five Years

THE PENTAGON — The Navy is budgeting $1.3 billion in Fiscal Year 2020 to purchase its first-in-class guided-missile frigate and associated engineering costs as part of an aggressive push to buy nine FFG(X) hulls by FY 2024, according to a Tuesday Navy budget overview.

The service is set to award the final design and construction contract for the frigate program in 2020, with the delivery of the first ship estimated to occur six years later, according to a draft request for proposal issued last...

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/12/navy-budgeting-1-3b-first-ffgx-hull-9-planned-next-five-years

Navy Issues Draft RFP for FFG(X) Next-Generation Frigate

Artist’s rendering of the Austal USA FFG(X) bid from SNA 2019. Austal USA Image

The Navy has issued a draft request for proposal to design and build its planned class of 20 next-generation guided-missile frigates (FFG(X)).

Posted late Friday, the detailed design and construction RFP draft will serve as a practice run for shipbuilders to pitch their designs for the small surface combatants that are set to follow on the two classes of Littoral Combat Ships currently in production.

The document lays...

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/02/navy-issues-draft-rfp-ffgx-next-generation-frigate

Navy Squeezing Costs Out of FFG(X) Program as Requirements Solidify

Artist’s rendering of the Austal USA FFG(X) bid from SNA 2019. Austal USA Image

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy says it may have squeezed out about $150 million per hull in savings as the service closes in on final requirements for a planned class of next-generation frigates (FFG(X)), program officials said last week.

After raising eyebrows in Congress last year with an upper-end cost of about $950 million per hull for the second ship and beyond, the Navy is now saying that figure could be closer to...

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/22/navy-squeezing-costs-ffgx-program-requirements-solidify

Spanish Frigate to Join Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group on Upcoming Deployment

The Álvaro de Bazán-class Spanish navy frigate ESPS Méndez Núñez (F-104) at Naval Station Norfolk. Méndez Núñez. U.S. Navy photo.

ARLINGTON, Va. – A Spanish frigate will deploy with USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and attached to its carrier strike group on a deployment from Naval Station Norfolk, Va. later this year.

ESPS Mendez Nunez (F-104) will join the Abraham Lincoln CSG when it reaches the Strait of Gibraltar in U.S. 6th Fleet, according to a release from the Spanish Armada. The CSG is then...

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/18/40466

Reyes Maroto: “La construcción naval atraviesa un buen momento”

La ministra de Industria, Comercio y Turismo, Reyes Maroto, ha presentado este martes la Agenda Sectorial de la Industria Naval, en colaboración con Pymar, Navantia y la Asociación Nacional de Empresas Naúticas (ANEN). Se trata de la quinta agenda sectorial, tras las de automoción, papel, cemento y aeronáutica.

REYES MAROTO

“El sector de la construcción naval en España está atravesando un buen momento, con cifras de contratación importantes que permitirán mantener la actividad en los próximos...

http://elvigia.com/reyes-maroto-la-construccion-naval-atraviesa-un-buen-momento/

Navantia invertirá 95 millones al año hasta 2022 en su transformación digital

Navantia y los sindicatos realizaron el martes la última reunión sobre el plan estratégico 2018/2022, que parte con el objetivo de “impulsar un plan de eficiencia operativa que permita desarrollar los principios del Astillero 4.0 y modernizar los centros mediante el uso de las nuevas tecnologías”. En el capítulo de inversiones, el plan prevé una media anual estimada de 95 millones de euros, que irán destinados “a la transformación digital y optimización de los procesos a través de las nuevas...

http://elvigia.com/navantia-invertira-95-millones-al-ano-hasta-2022-en-su-transformacion-digital/

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