Navigation News


Closure of Dalles Navigation Lock, Columbia River

Oct 01, 2009

On Sept. 30, Coast Guard Sector Portland, Ore. reported that it is monitoring and managing vessel traffic on the Columbia River east of Portland/Vancouver, Wash., due to the closure of the Dalles Dam lock in Dalles, Ore.The U.S. Army Corps…

NG Supplies Nav Systems for Brazil OSVs

Sep 21, 2009

Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has been awarded contracts to supply bridge navigation systems for four new offshore supply vessels to be built in Brazil.The four multipurpose platform supply vessels…

Navy Approves NG Submarine Nav Upgrade

Sep 16, 2009

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has announced that the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has approved the latest upgrade to its electronic navigation software for U.S. Navy submarines.Version 8.3 of Sperry…

Simrad-Yachting NSE Series Chartplotter Systems

Sep 09, 2009

Simrad-Yachting announced the NSE series of multifunction marine electronic displays. The most integrated Simrad-branded system ever developed, the fully-networkable NSE is a powerful GPS Chartplotter with embedded cartography for out-of-the-box functionality…

Differential GPS Site Closure

Sep 02, 2009

The US Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN) issued the following notice of site closure:The Miami, FL DGPS site, broadcast frequency 322 kHz, will be decommissioned and taken permanently off-line September 8, 2009 at 1200 EST.NAVCEN…

Raytheon Nav Systems for German Navy

Aug 28, 2009

Raytheon Anschütz has been awarded the contract for the complete Integrated Navigation System for the third Mission Supply Vessel (MSV) Class 702 for the German Navy. The third Mission Supply Vessel (2nd Batch) will be built by the consortium ARGE…

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