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The new contract is worth over $1 billion to build the fifth and sixth 496'x64.6' Constellation-class frigates for the U.S. Navy. Fincantieri Marinette Marine photo

Marinette Marine to build two additional frigates

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The Corps of Engineers work plan announced last week sets the agency’s priorities for spending this budget across numerous projects and studies in 50 states and territories and the District of Columbia for the upcoming year. Shutterstock photo

Army Corps of Engineers sets priorities for inland waterways projects

Pamela Glass

The report, prepared by a bipartisan group of four lawmakers, Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., and Senators Mark Kelly, D-Ari., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sounds an SOS that America is lagging dangerously behind China in the maritime domain. Shutterstock photo

Congress seeks solutions to rebuild U.S. maritime dominance

Pamela Glass

Ship sponsor Larissa Thune Hargens executed the ceremonial bottle break over the bow of Pierre witnessed by an audience of over 400 guests. Austal USA photo

Austal USA christens LCS 38 for Navy

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Yara International teamed up with the Kongsberg Group to build the world’s first autonomous and zero-emission container vessel, the Yara Birkeland. Yara International photo

The state of autonomous vessels

Ben Hayden

Bollinger delivered the 49th FRC, Douglas Denman, in May 2022. Bollinger Shipyards Inc. photo.

Coast Guard awards Bollinger two more fast response cutters

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The vessels were designed and constructed as a part of the U.S. Navy Foreign Military Sale (FMS) program. Silver Ships photo

Silver Ships delivers four of seven coastal fast response boats to Navy

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General Dynamics NASSCO christened the USNS Earl Warren in January 2023. GD-NASSCO photo.

US Navy accepts USNS Earl Warren

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Doug Stewart photo

OMSA: Coast Guard policy will ease experienced mariners’ return to work

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A rendering of the new NOAA marine operations center building planned for Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. Burns & McDonnell image.

NOAA groundbreaking for Rhode Island marine operations center

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NOAA now pushing out daily chart updates

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The Joanne Marie listing at the shipyard on the morning of June 25, 2023. Coast Guard photo.

NTSB: Obstructed valve led to towing vessel flooding, partial sinking

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Salvors prepare to move a large piece of supporting steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore April 22, 2024, in the effort to reopen the Fort McHenry channel. Army Corps of Engineers photo/MST1 Claudio Giugliano.

Bridge section removed for next Baltimore access channel

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