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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday announced the U.S. and Philippines agreed to several defense cooperation measures, including deploying a new Marine Corps anti-ship missile system. “The United States […]

The Australian defense ministry on Friday announced it agreed to buy $125 million worth of MK-48 heavyweight torpedoes for current and future submarines. The government said procuring more of these […]

A major South Korean conglomerate this week purchased a significant stake in Australian shipbuilder Austal, with hopes of expansion. On March 18 Hanwha Group said it acquired a 9.9 percent […]

HII [HII] named Australia’s VEEM Ltd. as one of the first companies that will join a submarine supplier pilot program HII is leading to help connect Australian firms to the […]

The U.K. Ministry of Defense last week announced it received its first new end-to-end autonomous mine hunting vessel, the unmanned surface vessel (USV) RNMB Ariadne. In a March 14 announcement, […]

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean last week successfully completed its first significant maintenance work on a U.S. Navy replenishment ship in a seven-month maintenance regular overhaul (ROH). The ROH work on […]

The Australian government awarded HII’s [HII] Australian subsidiary a $6 million contract to deliver a new submarine supplier qualification pilot to help Australian companies qualify to enter the U.S. submarine […]

The Australian government on Friday released a new document setting out its vision for the future submarine industrial base, including planning for about $19 billion needed to prepare the domestic […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korea’s Hanwha to use it as a supplier for a mine detection system to be used by South Korea’s Countermeasures […]

The State Department approved a potential $84 million Foreign Military Sale of hundreds of GBU-39B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB-1) to Romania. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the […]