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Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 5:42 am:

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The Navy has few small-ship options if its littoral combat ship program continues to lag behind schedule, the service’s top requirements officer said Tuesday, because the fleet’s frigates are too old or maxed-out on equipment to upgrade further.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 6:59 am:

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The US Navy has exercised contract options funding Austal’s acquisition of long lead-time material associated with the construction of two additional 103-metre Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSV).

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Posted on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 3:35 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy officially accepted delivery of the future guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) July 10 from General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works (BIW) during a ceremony in Bath, Maine, July 10.

Wayne E. Meyer is the 56th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and carries the 100th Aegis Combat System.

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Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 2:04 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The secretary of the Navy and secretary of the Army announced July 16 the names of the first three Joint High Speed Vessels as Fortitude (JHSV 1), Vigilant (JHSV 2) and Spearhead (JHSV 3).

A cooperative effort between the Navy and the Army, JHSVs will be used for fast intra-theater transportation of troops, vehicles and equipment.

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Posted on Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 2:12 am:

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The Navy and Coast Guard small surface ship programs are too mature to combine, but each service could benefit from using the other’s designs, according to a report released Friday by the Congressional Budget Office.

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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 5:18 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A keel laying ceremony for Pre-Commissioning Unit America (LHA 6) was held July 17 at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding's Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.

The keel was authenticated by ship's sponsor Lynne Pace, the wife of retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, who confirmed that the keel was truly and fairly laid.

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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 3:58 am:

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The Navy will christen the newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, Jason Dunham, Aug. 1, 2009, during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.

Designated DDG 109, the new destroyer honors Cpl. Jason L. Dunham, the first Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dunham was born in Scio, N.Y., Nov. 10, 1981, sharing the same birthday as the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Posted on Friday, July 31, 2009 - 5:47 am:

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WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy acknowledged Thursday that it had often failed to properly run multibillion-dollar shipbuilding programs and vowed to improve.
Navy leaders told a panel of the House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee that they were committed to stepped-up oversight, aggressive cost-reduction and enhanced competition at all levels of the industry.

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Posted on Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 4:14 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), the first of 22 Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers to undergo an extensive capability upgrade as part of the Cruiser Modernization Program, completed Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) July 29 off the coast of Southern California.

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Posted on Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 4:26 am:

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BATH, Maine (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy christened the newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), Aug. 1 during a ceremony at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.

"I can tell the crew of the USS Jason Dunham, that you can not have a better namesake, nor a better sponsor. This ship, USS Jason Dunham, will always remind individuals that freedom is in fact not free. It is paid for by those great young men and women who wear the cloth of our nation," said retired general and former commandant of the Marine Corps Michael Hagee, who served as guest speaker.

Deborah Dunham served as the sponsor of the ship named for her late son. In accordance with Navy tradition, she broke a bottle of champagne across the ship's bow and christened the ship.

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Posted on Saturday, August 8, 2009 - 3:02 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The future USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) completed Acceptance Trials Aug. 6, sailing from and returning to the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.

The future USNS Wally Schirra is the eighth ship of the Lewis and Clark-class to be presented to the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) for acceptance. This is the final major milestone prior to delivery to the Navy and the first and only time the ship will go to sea prior to her crew moving aboard.

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Posted on Saturday, August 8, 2009 - 4:02 am:

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A U.S. Navy draft study has concluded that operating a nuclear-powered cruiser could be cheaper than operating a non-nuclear ship, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is disputing that assessment.

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Posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 2:50 am:

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SAN DIEGO — The Navy's newest replenishment ship will slide into the water and join the fleet at a Sunday afternoon ceremony here, officials said.

Navy officials, led by the U.S. Third Fleet commander, Vice Adm. Richard Hunt, will christen and launch the Matthew Perry...

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Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 3:54 pm:

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Aug. 15, 2019 — Typhoon Kaibutsu ravages a foreign country. Hundreds of thousands are left homeless and hungry.

The nation desperately needs humanitarian supplies and services, but a tense political situation rules out a large U.S. military base of operations on shore.

The storm obliterated the ports, making traditional supply offloading impossible.

Forty miles out in the ocean, the U.S. military sets up a floating base with 14 ships and thousands of troops.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 6:35 am:

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SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- USNS Matthew Perry (T-AKE 9), which will be the newest ship in the U.S. Navy's Lewis and Clark-class of dry cargo/ammunition ships, was christened and launched Aug. 16, during a late afternoon ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.

Perry is expected to be delivered to the Navy's Military Sealift Command in early 2010 following a series of tests and sea trials.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 4:41 am:

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The USS America (LHA 6), designed with ShipConstructor Software, will be the most technologically advanced amphibious warship to date according to U.S. Navy Capt. Robert Howell, Executive Officer and Director of Contracts, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Gulf Coast.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 4:55 am:

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The Navy took delivery of its 57th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the Dewey, Aug. 17 after combined builder’s and acceptance “super trials” earlier this summer in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 3:47 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The keel for the future USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11) was laid during a ceremony at the General Dynamics-NASSCO shipyard in San Diego Aug. 25.

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Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 - 5:57 am:

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Virginia Sen. Jim Webb has enlisted the investigative arm of Congress to look into the state of the Navy’s four shipyards, his office announced Friday.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 3:01 am:

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SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Military Sealift Command (MSC) accepted delivery of dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) in San Diego Sept. 1. The ship was built by General Dynamics NASSCO.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 5:35 am:

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The U.S. Navy might soon launch a small fleet of sailing vessels specially designed to patrol coastlines, conduct day and night surveillance, serve as electronic signal relay stations, monitor the environment and perform other tasks.

But it's not exactly a return to the days of wooden ships and iron men. These vessels are built of tough, lightweight composite materials. And there will be no sailors on board.

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Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 6:41 am:

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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) , today began construction of the future USNS William McLean, the twelfth ship of the U.S. Navy's T-AKE program.

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Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 4:23 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy announced Oct. 9 the newest Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo/ammunition ship (T-AKE) would be named USNS Medgar Evers. The announcement was made by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus during a Jackson State University speaking engagement in Mississippi.

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Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 - 4:43 am:

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A New York congressman wants the Navy to name its next destroyer after a chaplain from his district who was awarded the Medal of Honor after being killed in action in Vietnam.

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