Defense

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract from the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) to provide product support services for ship control products installed on its vessels.

HMS Prince of Wales provided an impressive setting for the Future Maritime Aviation Force Accelerator Day this week, bringing together experts from the navy, MOD and industry to meet and discuss the vision for drone operations.

Sailors from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) ONE Companies (CO) 1-3 and 1-5, based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, conducted surface supplied and SCUBA diving operations to remove old conduit, pipe, cable and debris from the reef and waters off Zablan Beach State Park in Nanakuli, Hawaii, July 6-16.



VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has won a tender to supply the Hellenic Army Special Forces with its Munin S1200 daughter craft, the largest boat type currently offered by VIKING.

Mitcham Industries, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Klein Marine Systems, Inc. have entered into an agreement with a major European defense contractor to jointly upgrade existing technology to create the next generation of synthetic aperture sonar systems for commercial and military markets. The new systems will be based on technology developed by each of parties over the past several years.  Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.

Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF), Royal Navy and U.S. Navy forces participated in mine countermeasures (MCM) interoperability training in the Arabian Gulf on June 6-21.

During Armed Forces Week, BAE Systems and the Royal Navy announce a £3.2 million autonomous boat contract that will increase Navy’s capabilities while protecting sailor’s lives.

Israel Shipyards ‒ one of the largest privately owned shipbuilding and repair facilities in the Eastern Mediterranean ‒ announces an agreement with an African navy for the supply of two OPV 45 offshore patrol vessels.

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Force celebrated Independence Day with unmatched sea power while deployed to the South China Sea conducting dual carrier operations and exercises in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.



Teledyne Marine – Vehicles announces that the Ministry of Defense of Poland has procured, through Remontowa Shipbuilding two additional Gavia Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) for its second and third Kormoran Class new MCMV.

Mariscope Meerestechnick has integrated to his offer another new model. The Commander MK III Rescue is a ROV with features that stand out in a vehicle of this class.

Groton-based ThayerMahan, Inc., a world leader in autonomous maritime security solutions, has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Newport, the Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace.