- Avondale to get a piece of Northrop Grumman Corp.'s $64-million U.S. Navy contract
Northrop Grumman Corp. today was awarded a $64-million U.S. Navy contract to provide a wide range of support services for new and in- service ships, including DDG 51 destroyers, LPD 17 amphibious transport dock ships, the Navy's LHD 8 amphibious assault ship, Littoral Combat Ships, the DD(X) multimission combat ship ......
- Costs, delays surface again for new attack
submarines.
Just a year after U.S. Navy officials assured Congress that they had taken steps to stem rising costs and production delays for the newest family of nuclear-powered attack submarines, they now concede that problems may not have gone away. The first ship in the Virginia class, SSN 774, will cost ......
- Partners sought for Littoral Combat
Ship.
The U. S. Navy is looking to tap the experience of foreign navies and shipyards in the design and development of its Littoral Combat Ship. The Navy envisions the LCS operating in coastal waters, clearing mines, chasing diesel submarines and potential terrorists, and ferrying special-operations forces. While the United States ......
- Ironclad reborn.
One hundred and forty-five years after it was lost, a piece of naval history will once again be seen by the public. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Artifacts of the USS Monitor, which sank in the stormy seas of the Atlantic in 1862, will be on display in a special wing of the ......
- Military Sealift Command.
(Government).
Commander, Military Sealift Command The Navy's Military Sealift Command provides ocean transportation for Department of Defense cargo to sustain US forces worldwide during peacetime and in war. More than 95 percent of all the equipment and supplies needed to sustain the US military are carried by sea. In addition to ......
- Persian Gulf bound; US Merchant Mariners: the story of
one crew's rapid deployment in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
Civilian Merchant Mariners have supported the US Military during every conflict since the Revolutionary War. During the early months of Operation Iraqi Freedom, there were as many as 167 civilian manned ships transporting war material between the US and ports in the Persian Gulf. This aptly named "steel bridge" ......
- New members.
BALTIMORE Cross, John H. -- ATOFINA Chemicals, Inc., Glen Allen, VA. DALLAS Blumenthal, Jon -- Blue Line Corp., San Antonio, TX. Glotfelter, Craig -- BASF Corp., Mt. Olive, NJ. NEW ENGLAND Pataky, Ronald -- D.N. Lukens Inc., Westboro, MA. Simpson, Douglas K. -- Arch Chemicals, Inc., Cheshire, CT. Educator Sundberg, ......