Gibbs & Cox has secured a multiphase contract with a $9.45M initial value to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop a system of connected tactical unmanned surface vessels.

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L3Harris Technologies has teamed up with Gibbs & Cox's maritime solutions business to design and engineer a medium unmanned surface vehicle for the U.S. Navy as part of a potential $281M contract L3Harris won last month.

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Nanette DeRenzi, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and chief operating officer of Jefferson Consulting Group, has joined the board of directors at naval engineering and design company Gibbs and Cox. She served in the Navy for 29 years and served as the service branch's judge advocate general for three years prior to her retirement in 2015, Gibbs and Cox said Tuesday.

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Matthew Garner, a more than 11-year civil service veteran of the Naval Sea Systems Command, has been named assistant vice president of ship design at Arlington, Va.-based maritime engineering company Gibbs & Cox.

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Lockheed Martin has selected Gibbs & Cox to support functional design work on a  multi-mission surface combatant platform for Saudi Arabia. Gibbs & Cox said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s navy chose an MMSC offering that Lockheed based on the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship in a bid to help the service branch confront maritime and economic security threats. […] More

William Landay III, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and president of WE LANDAY Consulting, has joined the board of directors at Arlington, Virginia-based maritime engineering and design company Gibbs & Cox. Gibbs & Cox said Friday the more than 35-year Navy veteran also currently holds a senior adviser role at Avascent International and the Potomac Institute of […] More

ST Engineering North America's VT Halter Marine subsidiary has partnered with Gibbs & Cox to develop a concept for the U.S. Navy's Large Unmanned Surface Vessel as part of a design analysis contract that will run through August 2021.

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Fincantieri CEO Giuseppe Bono told Defense News in an interview published Monday that offering an operational ship with anti-submarine capability is one of the reasons why the company“™s Wisconsin-based subsidiary won the U.S. Navy“™s FFG(X) frigate design and construction contract.

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U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has visited a shipyard in Marinette, Wis., where  a Lockheed Martin-led industry team is building a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship. Lockheed said Thursday it leads a team consisting of Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Gibbs & Cox and at least 800 suppliers from across 42 states to support the service branch’s LCS program. Spencer, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, […] More

A Lockheed Martin-led industry team christened the U.S. Navy‘s 17th Littoral Combat Ship during a ceremony held Saturday at a shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin. Sen. Joe Donnelly’s wife Jill broke a champagne bottle across the USS Indianapolis bow as the ship sponsor, Lockheed said Saturday. The next Freedom-variant ship will continue to undergo assembly and test processes at the Fincantieri Marinette […] More

A littoral combat ship that Lockheed Martin developed with partner Fincantieri Marinette Marine has entered into active service with the U.S. Navy. The Navy conducted the commissioning ceremony for the USS Little Rock vessel designated LCS 9 on the Buffalo River in New York, Lockheed said Saturday. The ship, which was the second to be named after the […] More

An alliance between Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine has helped the U.S. Navy Board of Inspection and Survey perform acceptance trials on the service branch’s future Freedom-variant littoral combat ship. Lockheed said Thursday that USS Little Rock, the Navy’s fifth Freedom-class LCS, completed the five-day trials in port and at sea to demonstrate its […] More