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Serco Announces $334 Million Naval Sea Systems Command Prime Contract Award

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Thursday, June 2, 2022
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HERNDON, VA, June 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, engineering, and management services, has been awarded the Shipbuilding Acquisition Program Management (SHAPM) Services contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Team Submarine (TEAM SUB) which is comprised of PEO Strategic Submarines, PEO Attack Submarines, and PEO Undersea Warfare Systems.

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  • HERNDON, VA, June 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, engineering, and management services, has been awarded the Shipbuilding Acquisition Program Management (SHAPM) Services contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Team Submarine (TEAM SUB) which is comprised of PEO Strategic Submarines, PEO Attack Submarines, and PEO Undersea Warfare Systems.
  • As the prime contractor, Serco will provide program management, business and financial management, technical and engineering services, logistics, and foreign military support.
  • The contract has a one-year base period plus four one-year option periods and is valued at $334 million if all options are exercised.
  • The Team Submarine Mission is keeping America's Navy #1 in the world by developing, acquiring, modernizing, and maintaining the world's best Submarines and Undersea Systems.

F-35 Expands Global Presence in 2021

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Monday, January 3, 2022
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In 2021, two new countries Switzerland and Finland selected the F-35 for their new fighter jet programs.

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  • In 2021, two new countries Switzerland and Finland selected the F-35 for their new fighter jet programs.
  • The F-35's operational capabilities continued to advance and further demonstrated its value as the most advanced node in the 21st century battlespace.
  • Last year alone, the F-35 successfully participated in a series of flight tests and exercises, including Project Hydra, Northern Edge, Orange Flag, Talisman Sabre and Flight Test-6.
  • These program achievements are enabled by employing digital technologies, which were vital to achieving 142 deliveries in 2021.

Naval shipbuilding: September 2019 update

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Friday, September 20, 2019
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House of Commons LibraryNaval shipbuilding: September 2019 update The Commons Library has published several briefing papers in recent years examining surface ship procurement. This short note provides a brief overview of latest developments.The Shipbuilding Strategy The Government's new Shipbuilding Strategy in 2017 overhauled theway the MOD procured surface ships.

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Naval shipbuilding: September 2019 update


    The Commons Library has published several briefing papers in recent years examining surface ship procurement. This short note provides a brief overview of latest developments.

The Shipbuilding Strategy

    • The Government's new Shipbuilding Strategy in 2017 overhauled theway the MOD procured surface ships.
    • The Strategy set out plans to energise the UKs maritime industry, retain and increase naval engineering skills and sustain jobs.
    • However, two years on and one commentator suggests "the strategy has failed to work out exactly as planned, while media report industry executives and unions say there is a gap between the strategys ambition and reality.
    • The Prime Minister appointed Ben Wallace, the Secretary of State for Defence, as the Government's new Shipbuilding Tsar in September 2019.
    • He has been tasked with working across Government to "enhance the UK's shipbuilding enterprise".
    • Type 31 frigates TheShipbuilding Strategy laid out plans for a new class of five Type 31efrigates.
    • The aggressivetimetable laid out in the strategy has slipped slightly.

Fleet Solid Support Ships

    • The Government also intends to buy two (possibly three)new Fleet Solid Support Ships (FSS).
    • These are for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and are used to supply ships at sea with food, ammunition and spares.
    • The Government argues "there is no national security interest which requires the design and construct of the FSS ships to be limited to UK companies".
    • The contract is expected to be awarded in 2020 with the ships delivered from the mid-2020s.

Type 26 frigates

    • The Government has committed to buying eight Type 26 frigates and signed a contract for the first three in July 2017.
    • The MOD says it expects to sign a contract for the second batch of five Type 26 Frigates in the early 2020.
    • The Type 26s are anti-submarine warfare specialist frigates and will replace the eight ASW Type 23 frigates currently in service.

Offshore Patrol Vessels

    • The second of the Royal Navys new River-class Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), HMS Medway, was commissioned into service on 19 September 2019.
    • BAE Systems is building five OPVs for the Navy, ordered in two batches in 2013 and 2016, at its Clyde shipyards.
    • They are intended for fishery protection, border patrol, counter-piracy, anti-smuggling, counter-terrorism and maritime defence.

Related Library briefing papers

    • The Royal Navys new frigates and the National Shipbuilding Strategy: February 2017 update, 2 February 2017, CBP-7737.
    • This paper examines the main points of the shipbuilding strategy.
    • This paper focuses on the procurement plans for the Royal Fleet Auxiliarys new Fleet Solid Support Ships.