BAE Systems Land & Armaments will build three MK 110 Mod 0 gun mounts and related hardware for the Navy under a new $22.7 million contract. Work is scheduled for BAE's Louisville plant, and completion is projected for January 2022.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and the Marine Corps are carrying out exercises in the Arabian Sea but have yet to enter the Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Iran. The exercises, which include the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group, "are aimed towards increasing our lethality and agility to respond to threats and deterring destabilizing actions in this important region," said Rear Adm. John Wade, commander, Carrier Strike Group 12.

Lockheed Martin will provide post-delivery work on the littoral combat ship USS St. Louis under a $12.7 million contract. A majority of the work will be performed in Marinette, Wis., with other work scheduled for Hampton, Va.; Moorestown, N.J.; San Diego, and the District of Columbia.

The keel has been laid for the first in a new class of Navy replenishment oilers at General Dynamics-National Steel and Shipbuilding's San Diego shipyard. The future USNS John Lewis and other planned vessels of its type will recapitalize the current fleet of T-AO 187-class oilers.

The two Zumwalt-class destroyers that have been built have hundreds of "serious deficiencies" that may compromise their performance and sustainability, according to a Government Accountability Office analysis. Some analysts maintain the DDG 1000 program's shortfalls are not a result of poor workmanship at Bath Iron Works, but rather Pentagon indecision.

This summer, an international audience of innovative thinkers will meet to discuss the needs of the next generation of icebreaker, July 23 at the "Arctic Day" workshop in Washington, D.C. Sponsorships are available to promote your brand to key players in the community. Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard VADM Charles W. Ray will provide the morning keynote address! Sign up for an Arctic Day sponsorship today! For additional information contact sponsorships@navalengineers.org.

As budgets have become more restrictive, and navies worldwide rely more on commercial practices and standards for the core of their warship designs, there has been a continuing trend away from traditional naval design approaches and towards a baseline centered in common international requirements. “Join us at the International Naval Design Standards course”, June 18 (in conjunction with the Technology, Systems and Ships) where Rich Delpizzo, ABS representative to NATO’s International Naval Safety Association (INSA), will provide a broad overview to two ABS rule sets and the NATO standard. To register or for more information contact education@navalengineers.org.

Mid-June will mark the next phase of dredging from East Chicago's harbor, targeting 175,000 cubic yards of sediment. The Army Corps of Engineers says the multi-year project will eventually bring the federal channel to approved navigation depths.

Burlington, Vt., is partnering with Audubon Vermont, the University of Vermont and hundreds of local volunteers on a project that aims to plant 1,500 trees this season in an effort to restore and protect natural areas.

A 13-foot-tall rocket designed and built by a team from the University of Southern California climbed to an altitude of 340,000 feet to reportedly become the first student-built rocket to pass the Karman line into space. The Traveler IV rocket accelerated to a top speed of 4,970 feet per second over the course of its flight.