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Navy Hopes for Commonality – Or at Least Interoperability – With Frigates in Australia, Canada, U.K.

July 12, 2018 6:10 PM

Top: Artist’s concept of Royal Australian Navy Hunter-class guided-missile frigate. Bottom: (left to right) U.K. Royal Navy Arrowhead Type 31e design, Austal USA FFG(X) design and Lockheed Martin FFG(X) design

CAPITOL HILL – The U.S. Navy is in talks with Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in the hopes that all four navies will design and field frigates with common combat systems – or at least interoperable ones – the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for ships told USNI News. Read More →

Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Frigate (FFG(X)) Program

July 10, 2018 7:23 AM

The following is the July 3, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Frigate (FFG(X)) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More →

Reports: Australia Picks BAE Systems Design for $26B Warship Deal

By: Ben Werner

June 28, 2018 3:51 PM

BAE Type 26 Frigate, BAE photo

BAE Systems won a $26 billion contest to design and build nine frigates for the Royal Australian Navy, according to Thursday media reports.

Senators Want More Details on 2-Carrier Buy, LCS Requirement Before Supporting Additional Shipbuilding Funds

By: Megan Eckstein

May 25, 2018 3:54 PM

A crane moves the lower stern into place on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. on June 22, 2017. HII Photo

The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking for more information from the Navy before it will support buying additional ships in Fiscal Year 2019, which its House counterparts wholeheartedly endorsed doing. Read More →

Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Next-generation Frigate (FFG(X)) Program

April 17, 2018 7:34 AM

The following is the April 6, 2017 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Frigate (FFG(X)) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More →

SECNAV Spencer: LCS Build Rate ‘Not Optimal’ But ‘Good‘ for Sustaining Yards Ahead of FFG(X)

By: Sam LaGrone

March 8, 2018 12:30 PM

USS Billings (LCS-15) launches sideways into the Menominee River in Marinette, Wisconsin in 2017. Lockheed Martin Photo

CAPITOL HILL — Navy leaders are committed to buying a single Littoral Combat Ship in Fiscal Year 2019 despite increasing concern the rate would put shipbuilders at a disadvantage in the upcoming frigate competition. Read More →

Shipbuilders Worried About Navy Plan for 1 LCS in 2019 Ahead of Frigate Transition

By: Megan Eckstein

March 2, 2018 5:08 PM

Littoral Combat Ship Tulsa (LCS-16) is heading back to Austal USA after launching from the drydock at BAE Ship Systems. She’s passing Austal’s vessel completion yard where USNS Yuma (EPF 8), future USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and future USS Omaha (LCS 12) are docked in 2016. Austal USA Photo

The Navy’s plan to buy just one Littoral Combat Ship in Fiscal Year 2019 has the two LCS shipbuilders uneasy, just a year before the program is set to transition to a guided-missile frigate and downselect to a single contractor. Read More →

Navy Picks Five Contenders for Next Generation Frigate FFG(X) Program

By: Sam LaGrone and Megan Eckstein

February 16, 2018 5:14 PM

USNI News Image

Five ship designs will compete in the Navy’s bid for 20 next-generation guided-missile frigates (FFG(X)) that will follow the Littoral Combat Ship, the service announced on Friday. Read More →

SOUTHCOM Tidd Wants More Surveillance, Coast Guard Cutters to Stem Illegal Trafficking

By: John Grady

February 16, 2018 10:47 AM

U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command, speaks with service members on Nov. 22, 2017. US Army Photo

The Southern Command’s top officer told the Senate Armed Services Committee he is receiving only a fraction of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance resources he needs to stem the flow of illegal rugs, people and money into the United States. Read More →

Document: Naval Sea Systems Command SNA 2018 U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship Briefings

January 15, 2018 5:49 PM

The following are the Naval Sea Systems Command briefings on the Littoral Combat Ship programs LCS Surface Warfare, Anti-Submarine Warfare and Mine Countermeasure mission from last week’s Surface Navy Association 2018 symposium. Read More →

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