Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of ...
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Constellation ends as FF(X) bets on a cutter baseline

Shipbuilding is seldom lost in a single scene, but is lost in an inch of rework, and a pound of weight and months of time.
The Navy is looking to rebound from its latest shipbuilding SNAFU by basing the design of its new frigate on a Coast Guard cutter.
The company hosted a keel-laying ceremony Friday for ship FFG 52, the future USS Constellation. According to Fincantieri, keel-laying ceremonies historically involved the laying down of the central or ...
The Department of Defense has awarded Fincantieri Marinette Marine a contract to build two U.S. Navy frigates, according to the daily Pentagon contract announcements. The contract, valued at more than ...
HII should be able to launch the proposed new US Navy (USN) small surface combatant (SSC) meant to replace the cancelled ...
MARINETTE, Wis. (WBAY) - The U.S. Navy has announced a “strategic shift away” from the Constellation-class frigate program, effectively cancelling the military ships that would have been built in ...
Summary: The article discusses the U.S. Navy’s venture into developing the Constellation-class guided-missile frigate, inspired by European multipurpose frigates, during America’s post-Cold War ...
We don't have news yet on whether the driver or people in the convenience store were hurt. Within hours of an ICE agent shooting and killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, dozens of ...