HII Newport News Now Using Additive Manufacturing Process
When Chris Davis, a tool engineer at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, designed an upgrade for a spotface cutting tool needed for work aboard John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), it…
MSCI Advisory on Adversarial Foreign Influence
1. Issue: This Advisory seeks to alert maritime stakeholders of potential vulnerabilities to maritime port equipment, networks, operating systems, software, and infrastructure. Foreign companies manufacture, install, and maintain port equipment…
INS Nahshon Commissioned in Pascagoula
IDF Statement: This is the INS Nahshon, the first of 2 vessels to be received by the Israeli Navy. A delivery & flag-raising ceremony took place in Pascagoula🇺🇸, led by…
Scientists Deploy Ice Stations From USCGC Healy
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers ventured onto a floe of multi-year ice for the first of three multi-instrument ice stations in the Arctic Ocean…
HMS Northumberland Returns From NATO Exercises
A Royal Navy frigate returned home August 13th after spending more than half of 2023 at sea operating across the Arctic, Baltic and the North Atlantic. HMS Northumberland has sailed…
Construction Begins on Future USNS Hector A Cafferata Jr
Construction started on the sixth Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB), the future USNS Hector A Cafferata Jr (T-ESB 8), at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD NASSCO), Aug. 8.…
US Navy Extends Testing Contract with AML3D
AML3D Limited is pleased to announce contract extension for Nickel-Aluminum-Bronze (NAB) alloy characterization and strength testing to support the US Navy’s submarine program. The contract has been signed with BlueForge…
USS Delaware Returns from Maiden Deployment
Submarine USS Delaware (SSN 791), under the command of Cmdr. Robert Low, returned to Naval Submarine Base New London on Tuesday, August 14, completing her first six-month deployment since commissioning…
US & South Korea to Hold Exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield
The ROK and U.S. will conduct Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS), an 11-day, joint, combined, and interagency exercise event from Aug. 21 to 31, 2023. The annual exercise is designed to…
New SSN Duguay-Trouin Delivered to French Navy
On July 28, 2023, the Direction générale de l’armement (DGA) announced the receipt of the Duguay-Trouin, the second of six Suffren-class nuclear attack submarines (SNA) built as part of the…