Naval Technology

Rolls-Royce has successfully completed the factory acceptance test (FAT) of the first MT30 Gas Turbine for the UK Royal Navy's new Type 26 Global Combat Ship, at its test facility in Bristol.

CGI has won a position on the $809m Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Business Systems Center (BSC) indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.

GE Canada has extended a maintenance and logistics support services contract with Public Services and Procurement Canada.

L-3 MAPPS has awarded a contract to Norway-based Kongsberg Maritime to supply a CCTV system for installation on the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) new Harry DeWolf-class of arctic offshore patrol ships (AOPS).

General Dynamics (GD) Mission Systems has received a contract from the US Navy to continue fire control systems and subsystems work aboard the US and UK Royal Navy's (RN) nuclear ballistic-missile submarines (SSBN).

Naval architecture and marine engineering company Vard Marine has secured a contract worth approximately €4m from ASMAR Shipbuilding & Ship Repair Company to design an Antarctic icebreaking vessel for the Chilean Navy.

The crew of the UK Royal Navy's first Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has taken delivery of its first logistics compartment.

The US Navy's Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) has announced the start of its government acceptance test (GAT) on a vital meteorological system.

The US Navy's fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), along with its crew, has completed its no-load testing on catapult one as a part of its Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) programme.

DRS Technologies has delivered the first hybrid electric drive (HED) system, developed for the Republic of Korea Navy's (ROK) new Incheon-class FFX Batch II programme.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced completion of installation of more than 14 million feet of electrical and fibre-optic cable on the US Navy's first Ford-class aircraft carrier, Gerald R Ford (CVN 78).

The US Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has certified the new Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 to be incorporated in the US destroyer fleet.

General Dynamics (GD) Electric Boat has been awarded an $89.8m modification contract by the US Navy to continue to support the common missile compartment programme.

The US Navy is set to conduct Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield 2016 (SC/CS16) on navy installations located in continental US.

The US Navy has successfully fired a rolling airframe missile (RAM) Block 2 from Raytheon's SeaRAM anti-ship missile defence system, during a live-fire exercise at China Lake in California.

The Bangladesh Navy has introduced two new frigates, BNS Shadhinota and BNS Prottoy, into its fleet as part of efforts to boost its naval capabilities.

Reliance Defense has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian state government of Andhra Pradesh, to establish a naval facility in Visakhapatnam.

Duke Energy has signed a real estate out grant with the US Department of Navy (DON) to construct a 24MW direct current (DC) (17MW alternating current) solar facility at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane, Indiana.

BMT Designers & Planners, a subsidiary of the global international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, BMT Group, has been awarded an environmental quality programmes support contract by the US Navy.

The US Navy has reportedly released a video that shows an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel launching rockets near the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.