Defense

A 2018 report by the International Maritime Bureau, issued about piracy and armed robbery against ships revealed that total of 201 incidents were reported in 2018. The report stated some other alarming figures, as the violence against crew from January till December 2018, varied between 141 incidents of crew taken hostage, 83 kidnapped, 9 threatened, 8 injured, and 2 killed.

U.S. 2nd Fleet declared the command has achieved initial operational capability (IOC) May 29, less than one year after being established by senior military leaders.

Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC WILLIAM HART, the 34^th Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard took delivery on the 23rd of May, 2019 in Key West, Florida.

RE2 Robotics, a leading developer of humanlike robotic manipulator arms, has received $3 million in funding from the Office of Naval Research to develop a dexterous, underwater robotic hand with tactile feedback. The program, called Strong Tactile mARitime hand for Feeling, Inspecting, Sensing and Handing (STARFISH), will create an advanced end-effector for mine countermeasures (MCM) and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions for U.S. Naval expeditionary forces.

Fairbanks Morse, an EnPro Industries company (NYSE: NPO) and leading provider of solutions that are powering the world forward, announced today that the company has received a visit from Secretary of the Navy, Honorable Richard V. Spencer. The Secretary addressed Fairbanks Morse employees at its Beloit, Wisconsin facility and acknowledged the company’s decades-long dedication to supporting the United States Navy with their critical power solutions.

Israel Shipyards Ltd. and SK Group member – a leading shipbuilding and repair company for the naval and commercial marine markets – presents its advanced solutions for seaborne interdiction and prevention of terrorist and illegal activities for navies, law enforcement and HLS forces, at SIDEF 2019.

Survitec’s Novenco Fire Fighting (NFF) X-Flow water mist system will be retrofitted to Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) 12-Kingston-class maritime coastal defence vessels (MCDV), to address a known firefighting deficiency.

DSIT Solutions Ltd., a world leader in the development, manufacture and supply of high-end, comprehensive and integrated protection solutions against all under-water threat-types, is to unveil at IMDEX 2019 its unique, multi-layered defense solution for securing strategic assets against the various types of underwater threat in diverse ranges and sea depths.

CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd. - a company specializing in Electro-Optics (EO) and InfraRed (IR) Defense and Homeland Security solutions - will highlight the iSea-25HD at IMDEX 2019. The new and lightweight EO/IR payload has unsurpassed maritime surveillance capabilities, and was specially configured for observation from maritime vessels - even small boats and even in the harshest and most challenging environmental conditions.

Israel Shipyards Ltd. – a leading shipbuilding and repair company for the Naval and HLS markets – unveils its new multi-purpose Offshore Patrol Vessel, OPV-45, at IMDEX ASIA 2019.

CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd., a company specializing in the field of Electro-Optics (EO) and InfraRed (IR) Defense and Homeland Security solutions ‒ presents the TORNADO-ER, a panoramic IR scanning and automatic maritime target detection and tracking system, at IMDEX 2019.

On 23 April 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy, through an Integrated Program Office (IPO), awarded VT Halter Marine Inc., of Pascagoula, Mississippi, a fixed price incentive (firm) contract for the Detail Design and Construction (DD&C) of the Coast Guard’s lead Polar Security Cutter (PSC).