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Raytheon Awarded $16.8 Million To Repair Electronics On Fire-Damaged USS Oscar Austin By: Ben Werner May 20, 2019 12:31 PM Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Fredericksen Coulter stands the optical sight systems watch in the combat information center aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79). US Navy Photo The Navy recently awarded Raytheon a $16.8-million contract to repair the AN/SPY-1D transmitters suite aboard USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79), providing a hint at the type of work required to bring the fire-damaged Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer back to the fleet. The contract pays Raytheon to repair, refurbish, reassemble and test...

ABOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (AP) - The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman left Virginia in December for a routine overseas deployment but ended up having to "give 'em hell" in combat. The Truman, with 5,400 sailors and Marines on board, was to pull into Norfolk Naval Station on Friday, becoming the first East Coast carrier to return from the Iraq war. A second Norfolk-based carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, is due home next week. "It's kind of a relief" to be coming home, said Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Elizabeth Lay, 23, of Billings, Mont. "These past six...

ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK, Mar 21, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The U.S. Navy launched about 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraq from ships in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, senior officers said Friday. "We have just begun the next phase of attacks in Iraq," said Rear Adm. Matthew G. Moffit, commander of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk battle group in the north Persian Gulf. "The intention is to convince the regime that it is time to leave, and if they don't we will try to take them out by force," Moffit told reporters...