Navy Budgeting $1.3B for First FFG(X) Hull; 9 Planned Over the Next Five Years
THE PENTAGON — The Navy is budgeting $1.3 billion in Fiscal Year 2020 to purchase its first-in-class guided-missile frigate and…
Navy Issues Draft RFP for FFG(X) Next-Generation Frigate
The Navy has issued a draft request for proposal to design and build its planned class of 20 next-generation guided-missile…
Arleigh Burke Program Manager: Flight III Production ‘On Track’
This post has been updated to clarify that a new program office for the large surface combatant has not yet…
Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Frigate (FFG(X)) Program
The following is the Feb. 4, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Frigate (FFG[X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress.…
General Dynamics To Invest $1 Billion In Production Facilities Upgrades With Focus on Subs
General Dynamics Corp. plans to invest $1 billion in 2019 in upgrading and retooling its manufacturing operations company-wide, with a…
Navy Squeezing Costs Out of FFG(X) Program as Requirements Solidify
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy says it may have squeezed out about $150 million per hull in savings as the…
Navy Names Destroyers for Former Vietnam POW, Alaska Senator
The Navy is naming two upcoming destroyers after a long-time U.S. senator and Vietnam-era naval aviator and POW, the service…
Top Stories 2018: Navy Acquisition
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime…
Navy Awards Bath Iron Works a Second FY 2019 Destroyer, In First Move to 3-a-Year Buy Rate
The Navy awarded General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works a second destroyer for Fiscal Year 2019, in the first contract option…
Destroyer Thomas Hudner Set to Commission on Saturday in Boston
The Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) is scheduled to be commissioned Saturday morning in a ceremony…