The U.S. Navy commissioned Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 23, USS Cooperstown – the nation’s twelfth Freedom-variant LCS – at Pier 88 in New York, New York. This milestone places the ship, built by the Lockheed Martin led team, into active service with the U.S. Navy.
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Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC John Patterson to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 179th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 53rd Fast Response Cutter (“FRC”) delivered under the current program.
ABB has secured a breakthrough contract with the Spanish state-owned Navantia shipbuilding company to retrofit the Spanish Navy flagship, Juan Carlos I with an electrical propulsion system based on dual ABB Azipod® units.
Nauticus Robotics, Inc. , a developer of autonomous robots using artificial intelligence for data collection and intervention services for the ocean economies, has announced its successful completion of a live offshore demonstration with the U.S. Navy of its AI-enhanced mine countermeasure vehicle.
DSIT Solutions Ltd. (DSIT), one of the world’s leaders in underwater defense and security solutions, offering advanced, state-of-the-art sonar systems and acoustics technologies for naval, homeland security and energy manufacturers, will present its advanced Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) suite for surface vessels and its multi-layer underwater situational awareness solutions at IMDEX 2023.
AMSC, a leading system provider of megawatt-scale power resiliency solutions that orchestrate the rhythm and harmony of power on the grid™ and protect and expand the capability of our Navy’s fleet, has entered into a delivery contract for approximately $8 million with Textron Systems for a pre-production High-Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Magnetic Influence Mine Countermeasure Payload System.