Naval Group completed the modernization of the third and last La Fayette frigate (FLF), the Aconit, after six months of work followed by a series of dockside and sea trials.
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Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a five-year Optimized Maintenance Agreement with the Irish Naval Service. The agreement, which covers four offshore patrol vessels (OPV), is designed to ensure operational reliability along with long-term cost predictability. The order was booked by Wärtsilä in January 2024.
The US Navy selected Anduril and its Dive family of large autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to prototype distributed, long-range, persistent underwater sensing and payload delivery in contested environments. Anduril provides a family of AI-enabled AUVs that are designed to perform a wide range of defense and commercial missions.
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded a $80.5 million task order by the US Navy for the completion of the MK710 TSTS design and then to produce and deliver MK 710 Torpedo System Test Sets (TSTS) to enhance the Navy’s capability to provide the Submarine force with high quality, tested and validated MK 48 heavyweight torpedoes.
SEA is pleased to announce that its subsidiary SEA Canada has been awarded a £15.1 million contract to cover the production of lightweight Torpedo Launch Systems (TLS) for a major naval vessel program. Work will commence immediately and is expected to complete in 2030.
General Dynamics Mission Systems announced that it was awarded a $335,071,035 cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee follow on contract as the prime integrator for the Trident II Fire Control System (FCS).