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It's all part of the Navy’s ongoing surge to arm its surface fleet with up-gunned mine-hunting, submarine-attacking Littoral Combat Ships armed with guns, drones, mini-sub-hunting undersea drones, and missiles, something which continues to quietly surge along beneath the radar of a large variety of pressing Navy topics at the moment.
Alabama ship builder gets Navy contract to develop autonomous prototype
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The 312 Room on an Expeditionary Fast Transport built by Austal USA has accommodations for 312 passengers. (Lawrence Specker, al.com/TNS)
(Tribune News Service) Austal USA announced Wednesday that it has received a $44 million contract to develop one of its Expeditionary Fast Transports as an autonomous prototype.
The U.S. Navy contract applies to EPF-13, the future USNS Apalachicola, a ship that is already under construction. It follows a years-long effort by Austal executives to pitch the transport ships it builds in Mobile as a flexible platform that could be adapted to a variety of specialized missions.
Pentagon budget 2022: Aegis Ashore requests USD43.2 million, Polish construction delays continue
by Daniel Wasserbly
The US Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) Aegis Ashore missile interceptor system is slated to receive USD43.2 million in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) to develop improvements, support operations in Romania, and finish construction at a site in Poland.
MDA said in FY 2022 it would “continue High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Combat System hardening in Romania”, and that a long-delayed Aegis Ashore site in Poland is expected to be available by 2022 – at least three years late due to construction delays.
Construction is over 90% complete in Poland, MDA’s director for operations Michelle Atkinson told reporters on 28 May.