Navy

rsz_metal_shark_pbx-p1_running_prototype — Metal Shark's 40 PBX prototype shown here running 25 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Metal Shark photo

Metal Shark wins new Navy patrol boat contract

WorkBoat Staff

161016-N-OU129-006 — Austal christened the seventh of 12 LCSes like the one here to the Navy on Saturday. Navy photo

Austal USA christens another littoral combat ship

WorkBoat Staff

NSC_Hamilton_Launch_1_mid — The Coast Guard National Security Cutter contract was first awarded and construction began at Ingalls Shipbuilding in 2004. Photo courtesy of Huntington Ingalls

Huntington Ingalls to pay $9.2 million to settle overbilling claims

WorkBoat Staff

Rendering of the NCPV to be built by Metal Shark for the Navy. Image courtesy of Metal Shark

Metal Shark awarded $54 million Navy contract

David Krapf

lcs-montgomery-lcs8-austal-usa — The littoral combat ship Montgomery (LCS 8). Austal USA photo

Austal LCS completes acceptance trials, christens fast transport vessel

Ken Hocke

rsz_shipyards_1_617 — Littoral Combat Ship (l) and Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel at Austal USA earlier this year. Ken Hocke photo

Austal USA delivers eighth fast transport vessel to Navy

Ken Hocke

LCS Jackson — The littoral combat ship Jackson (LCS 6), moored at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to refuel in September 2016. U.S. Navy photo.

Navy's LCS program goes where no man has gone before

Ken Hocke

150613-O-ZZ999-603 — Austal USA has delivered the LCS Gabrielle Giffords to the Navy. The vessel is named for the former Arizona Congresswoman. U.S. Navy photo

Austal USA delivers Independence-variant LCS 10 to Navy

Ken Hocke

ny-ferry-metal-shark — First of eight new 85' aluminum ferries for New York at Metal Shark's Franklin, La. shipyard.

Metal Shark announces expansion plans

Ken Hocke

LCS Jackson — The littoral combat ship Jackson (LCS 6), moored at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to refuel in September 2016. U.S. Navy photo.

Senators threaten to withdraw support for LCS program

WorkBoat Staff

rsz_dsc00013 — Dr. Lothar Birk, associate professor and chair of UNO's School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. UNO photo

NAME school weathers storms and budget cuts

Ken Hocke