Each year, as we prepare for the largest U.S. based maritime industry conference in New Orleans, we tend to look back on the state of the industry and initiatives that were announced from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Defense Logistics Agency awarded a $5 billion contract to six businesses to help quicken ship manufacturing. Here, a welder ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Austal USA on Saturday will christen the future USNS Billy Frank Jr., the Navy’s sixth Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship (T-ATS 11), at the company’s ship manufacturing facility in ...

The US Navy installed a 3D printer on the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan in November 2022. (US Navy) The US Navy (USN) is striving to bolster the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in shipbuilding ...

The USS Gabrielle Giffords, an Independence-class littoral combat class warship, left Mobile, Alabama, from Austal's ship manufacturing facility Monday. Named for Tucson's Giffords, the ship will be ...

Austal USA won a construction contract by the U.S. Navy Friday to build an additional Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, its fifteenth ship in the class. The award of LCS 30 is a clear sign of ...