{"id":2320,"date":"2017-06-29T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:01:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:01:47","slug":"austal-wins-new-au-779-million-u-s-navy-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/29\/austal-wins-new-au-779-million-u-s-navy-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSTAL WINS NEW AU $779 MILLION U.S NAVY CONTRACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2321\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-560x400.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-260x186.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Australian<\/p>\n<p>Shipbuilder Austal has won an AU $779 million (U.S $584m) contract to build a 14th Littoral Combat Ship, of the Independence-class for the US Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The West Australian-based company (ASB) said the 127-metre LCS28 will be built at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, employing techniques that would be applied if it wins the Australian government\u2019s AU $3 billion Offshore Patrol Vessel contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I am obviously happy for Austal, I am also delighted in the vote of confidence this delivers for Australian shipbuilding and design,\u201d Austal chief executive David Singleton said.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : U.S.Navy<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/companies\/austal-wins-new-us-navy-contract-for-littoral-combat-ship\/news-story\/fbc6800f248311255f723642d9370708<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Australian Shipbuilder Austal has won an AU $779 million (U.S $584m) contract to build a 14th Littoral Combat Ship, of the Independence-class for the US Navy. The West Australian-based company (ASB) said the 127-metre LCS28 will be built at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, employing techniques that would be applied if it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/29\/austal-wins-new-au-779-million-u-s-navy-contract\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AUSTAL WINS NEW AU $779 MILLION U.S NAVY CONTRACT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[216,1579],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-austal","tag-lcs28","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}