Defense

Bollinger Shipyards LLC (“Bollinger”) has delivered the USCGC Melvin Bell to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 181st vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 55th Fast Response Cutter (“FRC”) delivered under the current program.

In September, Teledyne Marine deployed multiple Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) during REPMUS 23 experimentation and DYNAMIC MESSENGER 23 exercise which took place in Troia and Sesimbra, Portugal.

PIRIOU has delivered the second unit of the OPV 58 S class vessel program for the Senegalese Navy, in the presence of Mr. Oumar Youm - Minister of the Armed Forces of Senegal, His Excellency the Ambassador of Senegal in France El Hadji i Magatte Seye, Admiral Oumar Wade - Private Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic of Senegal and Admiral Abdou Sene - Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Navy.

Babcock International Group (Babcock), the international defense company, has signed a four-year £750 million contract with the UK Ministry of Defense’s (MOD) Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA), to deliver the infrastructure required to support and sustain the UK’s submarines for decades to come.

SEA is showcasing Ancilia, a high-performance trainable decoy launcher system to protect surface platforms from advanced missile and torpedo threats, at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.

The subsea product line of Forum Energy Technologies has secured a contract from the UK Ministry of Defense Salvage and Marine Operations (SALMO) team to supply a work class remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

BAE Systems Australia’s maritime division has selected Anschütz to deliver customized Synapsis Warship Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems (WINBS) for the Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter Class Frigate Program, which will provide a fleet of the world’s most advanced anti-submarine warfare frigates to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Kraken Robotics Inc. announces that it has supplied high-resolution seabed mapping sonar equipment to the Royal Australian Navy.

US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) is advancing lethality and the combat capabilities of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) during live weapons firing exercises in the international waters surrounding the Arabian Peninsula in October.

ThayerMahan, a world leader in providing autonomous maritime surveillance solutions for the defense, research, and offshore wind energy sectors, has been awarded a $19.3 million contract by the federal Department of Defense to continue its work developing specialized autonomous maritime sensing technology to sustain the US Navy's and US Marine Corps' undersea and maritime advantage.

Kraken Robotics Inc. is pleased to announce an initial order of its AquaPix^® Miniature Synthetic Aperture Sonar (MINSAS) System for HII’s new REMUS 620 Medium Class UUV. Synthetic Aperture Sonar is quickly becoming the tool of choice for mine countermeasure (MCM) operations due to its significantly increased resolution and higher area coverage rates compared to legacy side scan sonar.

delResearch LLC, the innovative creator behind the Popoto Modem brand of acoustic modems, proudly announces its selection by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to contribute to the PHYSICAL AND NETWORKING LAYER PROTOTYPE (PNLP) project, under the Broad Agency Announcement N00014-23-S-BC05 BAA.