Navy

The USS Augusta will arrive in Eastport early next week to be commissioned into the U.S. Naval Fleet on Sept. 30. Currently the ship is sailing en route from the Alabama shipyard where the 419-foot long vessel was constructed. LCS-34 is the U.S. Navy's latest littoral combat ship designed for near-shore missions.

More than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, one Maine sailor has finally been laid to rest. Stanley Willis Allen, of Bethel, was one of more than 400 who died aboard the USS Oklahoma, and until recently, one of the hundreds who had not been identified.

Congress is poised to embrace the Navy’s goal of expanding from its current fleet of 275 ships to 355. Doing so will be costly — the Congressional Budget…

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an amendment authored by Maine Second District Congressman Bruce Poliquin designed to ensure BIW is on…

BATH, Maine — Retired test electrician Dan Dowling watched news coverage of the collision of a Philippine container ship with the USS Fitzgerald on…

Maine Senator Susan Collins (R), who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been successful in getting funding for another DDG-51 Arleigh…

Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said Bath Iron Works has won two Navy contracts totaling more than $57 million for fleet maintenance and engineering…