u.s. navy shipbuilding

  By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The Pentagon agency that oversees contracts says it can’t rely on cost and schedule projections from General

  By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Pentagon officials are weighing whether to cancel the last of three ships in General Dynamics Corp.’s $22 billion

Alabama-based aluminum shipbuilder Austal Limited has successfully delivered the Littoral Combat Ship 6 (LCS 6), the future USS Jackson, to the U.S. Navy, a

  By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — Top Pentagon officials have ordered the Navy to conduct shock tests at sea for its new aircraft carrier over

Weeks before one of the U.S. Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ships departed for Asia, tests had exposed its vulnerability to a potential enemy attack, according

[contextly_sidebar id=”4G7lDFNttrhX3qiMdbG625bPjNe9kMix”]The U.S. Navy is getting ready to christen the future USS Gabrielle Giffords, the tenth

The second aircraft carrier in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford class is now estimated to exceed a cap imposed by Congress by at least $370 million, according

The USNS Lewis B. Puller was captured earlier this month off the coast of San Diego during builders trials from the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard. Lewis B.

Delivery of General Dynamics Corp.’s first two electric-powered Zumwalt-classdestroyers for the U.S. Navy is running more than a year late, in part for lack

The new surface combatant (SSC) ships will be based on an upgraded variant of the existing littoral combat ships

A civilian engineer at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard was arrested in a sting operation on a charge of trying to steal diagrams of the U.S. Navy’s newest nuclear

The cost of the U.S. Navy’s new aircraft carrier is likely to keep rising from the $12.9 billion now estimated, with the final price masked by deferring some

The future USNS Lewis B. Puller, the third ship in the U.S. Navy's new Mobile Landing Platform-class, was launched into San Diego Bay last week at the General

“There’s some likelihood we’ll lose a builder,” commented Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations

Huntington Ingalls Industries' (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has launched the company’s 10th amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha (LPD

A Lockheed Martin-led team launched the United States Navy's seventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Detroit, into the Menominee River this weekend

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) has launched the Virginia-class submarine John Warner (SSN 785) at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division,

This month twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are in and around the Hawaiian Islands for the world's

The U.S. Navy can’t meet its funding needs for surface warships and a new class of nuclear attack submarines from 2025 to 2034, according to the service’s

The U.S. Navy on Saturday christened its newest warship, the future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), during a ceremony at Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine where