The Navy has stood up an office to craft the next major surface combatant after more than ten years of starts and stops. On Friday, the service held a small ceremony to open the Guided-Missile Destroyer (DDG(X)) program office, designated as PMS 460 under Program Executive Office Ships, with a goal to start construction of […]
A second destroyer and funding for the Navy’s emerging tactical grid are on top of the Navy’s unfunded wish list to Congress, according to a copy of the report reviewed by USNI News on Tuesday. Following Friday’s rollout of a modest $22.6 billion, eight ship shipbuilding plan that set aside funds for a single Arleigh […]
U.S. Navy Awards Huntington Ingalls $3B to Modernize Nimitz-Class Warship Our Bureau 2320
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis
The U.S. Navy today awarded Hunting Ingalls Industries (HII)’ Newport News Shipbuilding $3 billion for the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH).
This effort refuels, overhauls and modernizes USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) to support the second half of its 50-year service life, a U.S. DoD release today said.
The RCOH represents 35% of all maintenance and modernization in an aircraft carrier s 50-year service life. Stennis’ RCOH will include the refueling the carrier’s two nuclear reactors, as well as extensive modernization work to more than 2,300 compartments, hundreds of tanks and systems. In addition, major upgrades will be made in the propulsion plant, to the flight deck, catapults, combat systems and the island.
Lockheed, Boeing, BAE Systems, Maxar join wave of companies pausing political donations January 13 Members of the National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Updated 1/14/21 at 4:45 pm EST with Maxar comment WASHINGTON The world’s two largest defense companies have joined a growing number of American industrial titans pausing their political donations after Lockheed Martin and Boeing announced Wednesday they would halt contributions following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. capitol. A third major defense contractor, BAE Systems, also announced Wednesday that it was pausing political spending in the U.S.