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US Navy Recovers Sunken F/A-18E from Mediterranean Sea

US Navy Recovers Sunken F/A-18E from Mediterranean Sea

NAPLES, Italy — On Aug. 3, the U.S. Navy successfully recovered the F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW 1), embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) that blew overboard due to unexpected heavy weather in the Mediterranean Sea July 8, 2022.

The aircraft was recove…

GD Unit Wins $2.2 Billion for Four US Navy Support Ships

GD Unit Wins $2.2 Billion for Four US Navy Support Ships

–General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO), San Diego, California, is awarded an $890,000,000 modification to previously awarded contract N00024-16-C-2229 for detail design and construction of fleet replenishment oilers T-AO 211 and 212.

Additionally, this contract modificat…

NRO Launches Second Spy Satellite from New Zealand

NRO Launches Second Spy Satellite from New Zealand

CHANTILLY, Va. — The National Reconnaissance Office launched a second mission, in less than a month, from New Zealand aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex-1 at Mahia Peninsula Aug. 4, 2022 at 1 a.m. EDT (5 a.m. UTC).

NROL-199 is the second of two missions in 2022 in partnersh…

ULA Atlas V Launches Final SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite

ULA Atlas V Launches Final SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite

BUCKLEY, Colo., — Following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today, the U.S. Space Force is now communicating with the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO) -6 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin.

The final satellite in the…


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