Defense

Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a five-year Optimized Maintenance Agreement with the Irish Naval Service. The agreement, which covers four offshore patrol vessels (OPV), is designed to ensure operational reliability along with long-term cost predictability. The order was booked by Wärtsilä in January 2024.

The US Navy selected Anduril and its Dive family of large autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to prototype distributed, long-range, persistent underwater sensing and payload delivery in contested environments. Anduril provides a family of AI-enabled AUVs that are designed to perform a wide range of defense and commercial missions.

Kongsberg Discovery is excited to announce a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) award to assist in the US Navy’s Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype.

In a significant stride for India's maritime strength, the Indian Navy has proudly commissioned the advanced survey vessel INS Sandhayak in a grand ceremony in Visakhapatnam. Three more will follow.

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded a $80.5 million task order by the US Navy for the completion of the MK710 TSTS design and then to produce and deliver MK 710 Torpedo System Test Sets (TSTS) to enhance the Navy’s capability to provide the Submarine force with high quality, tested and validated MK 48 heavyweight torpedoes.

Babcock has been awarded a new five-year contract by the UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) to continue providing in-service support for the Royal Navy’s Ships Protective System (SPS) equipment.

SEA is pleased to announce that its subsidiary SEA Canada has been awarded a £15.1 million contract to cover the production of lightweight Torpedo Launch Systems (TLS) for a major naval vessel program. Work will commence immediately and is expected to complete in 2030.

General Dynamics Mission Systems announced that it was awarded a $335,071,035 cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee follow on contract as the prime integrator for the Trident II Fire Control System (FCS).

The Aurora Engineering Delivery Partnership (EDP) has been awarded a new contract by Defense Equipment and Support (DE&S). Aurora EDP is a unique partnership between QinetiQ, AtkinsRéalis and BMT and is the UK Ministry of Defense’s primary route for procuring engineering services.

HII announced that its Enlighten subsidiary, based in Columbia, Maryland, supported the US Coast Guard in achieving a three-year “authority to operate” (ATO) status on its Integrated Data Environment known as SURVEYOR.

BAE Systems delivered the first production representative test vehicle (PRTV) of the new Amphibious Combat Vehicle 30mm Cannon (ACV-30) variant to the US Marine Corps for testing.

DGA awarded Naval Group a framework agreement for the design, production and testing of an Unmanned Combat Underwater Vehicle (UCUV) demonstrator.