Monthly Archive: Giugno 2020

ECA Group and SOACSY recently signed a licensing agreement giving ECA Group exclusive rights to exploit its developments using seaCHIRP technology based on SAS (Synthetic Aperture Sonar) for the detection of buried naval mines.

Naval mines are a real threat for seafarers and a navy’s daily concer…

Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Dr. Michael D. Griffin, and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Dr. Lisa Porter, have tendered their resignations effective July 10, 2020. Dr. Griffin became under-secretary in February of 2018, and Dr. Porter began h…

The first scout boat has been delivered to the navy in Karlskrona and her crew is being installed on board. The ship will be an important cog for the Navy in the protection of Swedish under water territory.

Following the intelligence operation in the Stockholm archipelago in 2014, the need to re…

The Columbia (SSBN-826) class program is a program to design and build a class of 12 new ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) to replace the Navy’s current force of 14 aging Ohio-class SSBNs. The Navy has identified the Columbia-class program as the Navy’s top priority program. The Navy wants to pro…

The United States has formally asked the UN Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Iran beyond October, when it is set to be progressively eased under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

UN Ambassador Kelly Craft and Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook “virtually …

NAPLES, Italy — Vice Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti, commander, U.S. 6th Fleet (C6F), presented the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Excellence “Hook ‘Em” award to French naval forces in Naples, Italy, June 24, 2020.

French Combined Task Forces (CTF) 470 and 473 and French frigates FS Bretagne (D-655) and…