SEA has been awarded a contract by New Zealand’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the first phase of upgrading the communications systems on two Royal New Zealand Navy ANZAC frigates. SEA will update the systems with its open architecture external communication capability under the Frigate Sustainment – Communications Project. The contract, which ...
A new National Shipbuilding Office has been created to galvanise and promote the UK’s shipbuilding enterprise, Ben Wallace the Government’s Shipbuilding Tsar has announced. Marking the start of London’s International Shipping Week, the founding of the new National Shipbuilding Office is a significant milestone in the UK’s shipbuilding renaissance. The Office will ...
The future of the Royal Navy and how it could further embrace autonomous technology, including drones, will be unveiled at DSEI this year. Led by a design challenge for young engineers from UK Naval Engineering Science and Technology (UKNEST), the Royal Navy will develop a Future Autonomous Fleet programme that could ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) aboard USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) successfully performed as designed as the ship underwent Full Ship Shock Trials (FSST) off the Eastern seaboard during the months of June, July and ...