The new radar suite was installed on Richard M McCool Jr in January 2023. (US Navy) The US Navy (USN) awarded a contract for the next landing platform dock (LPD) amphibious ships while onboard testing ...

Congressional decision-makers are working with the Navy to explore massively speeding up construction of its emerging fleet of new amphibious assault ships --- as part of an urgent push to expand the ...

The following is the May 17, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Navy LPD-17 Flight II Amphibious Ship Program: Background and Issues for Congress. The Navy wants to procure a total of 13 ...

The USN has awarded HII a $1.3 billion contract for the detail design and construction of the third Flight II San Antonio-class LPD, LPD-32, while question marks loom over the future of the class. The ...

The Navy wants to procure a total of 13 LPD-17 Flight II amphibious ships. LPD-17 Flight II ships cost roughly $1.8 billion each to procure. The first LPD-17 Flight II ship, LPD-30, was procured in ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) delivered the company's sixth amphibious transport dock, San Diego (LPD 22), to the U.S. Navy. The ship was delivered in a brief ceremony at Ingalls ...

AVONDALE, Louisiana -- Amphibious transport dock Anchorage successfully completed its acceptance trials last week, the U.S. Navy announced Monday. LPD 23, under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding's ...

July 5 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy's future amphibious transport dock, the USS Portland, is back at its shipyard in Mississippi after successfully completing Builder's Trials. The ship, built at Huntington ...

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has selected Raytheon to become the total ship electronics systems integrator on the LPD 17 class of warfare ships. U.S. company Raytheon received the ...

After a few years of painful, expensive and embarrassing ship deliveries, the Navy seems to have finally gotten into a sweet spot with its major programs. Naval Sea Systems Command announced Monday ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that the company's seventh amphibious transport dock, Anchorage (LPD 23), returned Friday from successful builder's sea trials in the Gulf of ...

The US Navy has christened USS Portland (LPD 27), its newest and 11th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, at the manufacturer Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) shipyard in Mississippi, ...