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Each of the contracts has an estimated ordering period of five years, which is expected to run through the end of August 2026. 

The Navy has issued multiple awards cumulatively worth up to $2.76 billion to maintain its East Coast-based Littoral Combat Ships, according to a Friday Defense Department contract announcement. BAE Systems’ ship repair yard in Jacksonville, Fla., and Fincantieri Marine Systems North America, which is based in Chesapeake, Va., received a multiple award contract worth up […]

Updated on August 4, 2021 at 7:27 am NBC Universal, Inc. A Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) search warrant unsealed Tuesday reveals details about the sailor accused of starting the fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard in July 202, and the evidence that led to his arrest. About 160 sailors were aboard the ship at the time of the fire and the entire crew was able to disembark; each sailor was later accounted for The warrant identifies the suspect only as a Seaman Apprentice Sailor ...

Sailor Charged With Setting USS Bonhomme Richard Fire Preliminary hearing will lead to recommendation about a court martial. An unnamed sailor has been charged with setting the fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard last July that burned for days and led to the decommissioning of the ship, the Navy said Thursday. A criminal investigation into the blaze revealed enough evidence to bring charges against the sailor, who was a member of the ship’s crew at the time of the fire, according to ...

VIRIN: 210729-N-EQ038-1147 Due to public health and safety restrictions on large public events resulting from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the ceremony was a private event celebrated alongside ship plankowners and former crew members. During the ceremony, keynote speaker, Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, wished the crew of Independence fair winds and following seas as they said farewell to their ship. “T...

Moving forward, Kitchener’s four goals are to improve readiness of surface force ships, continue improving professional development, ensure warfighting capability and lethality, and develop and maintain the toughness of surface warriors.  “We remain challenged with the number of missions and requirements that we have and the number of ships we apply those to,” said Kitchener. To address this readiness challenge, Kitchener said his goal is to make more ships ready for tasking by finis...

5 SAN DIEGO – Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) returned to San Diego, after 15 years serving in the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) in Japan, July 22. Mustin executed a change of station to the United States to conduct a planned depot modernization period and will be replaced by Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), who will depart their homeport of Everett, Washington. “Planned maintenance availabili...