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Navy Lays Keel on Future Littoral Combat Ship Omaha
February 18, 2015 — MOBILE, Alabama - Austal USA shipyard held a keel laying ceremony for the sixth Independence variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Omaha (LCS 12), Feb. 18... MORE

MARMC Partners with SERMC to Assist Fleet in C2X
February 12, 2015 — NORFOLK, Virginia. - The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) provided technical and engineering support to the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group during a Command and Control Exercise (C2X) off the coast of Florida during the first week of February 2015... MORE

MARMC teams with DARPA to bring Fab Lab to Norfolk
February 12, 2015 — NORFOLK, Virginia - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach Two (MENTOR2) Program began efforts to enhance defense readiness by improving both the training and tools for sailors at Navy Regional Maintenance Centers, NAVSEA announced Feb. 12... MORE

USS NEW YORK Deploys on Time After Emergent Blade Repair
February 4, 2015 — MAYPORT Florida. -- TheDive Locker at Southeast Regional Maintenance Center in Mayport accomplished afirst-ever waterborne repair on one of USS NEW YORK’s (LPD 21) propeller blades,enabling the ship to deploy on time with the IWO JIMA Amphibious Ready GroupDec. 11. During a routine underwater hullcleaning in mid-November, one blade... MORE

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Undocks USS Alexandria
January 29, 2015 — KITTERY, Maine - Employees at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) safely undocked USS Alexandria (SSN 757) on schedule Jan. 21... MORE

Norfolk Naval Shipyard develops cost savings tool for work on USS Albany
January 29, 2015 — PORTSMOUTH, Virginia. - Norfolk Naval Shipyard's (NNSY) Rapid Prototype Lab (RPL) has developed an improved tool for manually honing steering and diving cylinders aboard Los Angeles-class submarines... MORE

NAVSEA to hold media availabilities at Surface Navy Association
January 7, 2015 — WASHINGTON – Key officials from the Naval Sea Systems Command and affiliated program executive offices will hold media availabilities in NAVSEA’s exhibit booth during the 2015 Surface Navy Association annual symposium at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia, Jan. 13-15... MORE

Navy Awards Contract for Ranger Dismantling
December 22, 2014 — WASHINGTON - Today, the Navy awarded a contract for the towing and dismantling of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Ranger (CV 61) to International Shipbreaking Ltd... MORE

DDG 51 Modernization Program Meets Key Milestones
December 22, 2014 — WASHINGTON - The Navy's DDG 51 modernization program has met two key milestones Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) announced Dec. 22... MORE

AMDR Completes Hardware Critical Design Review on schedule
December 11, 2014 — WASHINGTON - The Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) Programsuccessfully completed a Hardware Critical Design Review (CDR) in conjunctionwith prime contractor, Raytheon, in Sudbury, Mass., Dec. 3. Completed on schedule, this review assessed the hardware baseline -examining all design information to ensure that the system will meet... MORE

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