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DPRTE news: Supply chain contracts support £1bn on Type 26 programme

Maritime July 29, 2020

DPRTE Engage Online partner, BAE Systems, has awarded a further five contracts to suppliers worth more than £100 million, as progress on the Type 26 frigate programme continues apace at the company’s shipyards in Glasgow. The new contracts will support 250 jobs, with the Type 26 programme sustaining more than 4,000 ...

DPRTE Engage partner DIO redeveloping Northern Ammunition Jetty in Glen Mallan

Maritime July 27, 2020

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is investing £64-million in a redevelopment of the Northern Ammunition Jetty in Glen Mallan to support the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. The jetty is used to load and unload ammunition. The original jetty was last upgraded in 1970 and had reached the end of its natural ...

Construction begins on US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship, the future USS Beloit

Maritime July 24, 2020

Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine marked the beginning of construction on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 29, the future USS Beloit, with a ceremony in Marinette. As part of a ship-building tradition dating back centuries, a shipyard worker welded into the ship’s keel plate the initials of Major General Marcia M. ...

Raytheon delivers first SPY-6 radar array to US Navy’s newest destroyer

Maritime July 24, 2020

Raytheon Missiles & Defense has delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array for installation on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the US Navy’s first Flight III guided-missile destroyer. The SPY-6 family of radars performs simultaneous air, missile and surface defence on seven types of US Navy ships. “SPY-6 will change ...