Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a Lansing event announcing that a future expeditionary fast transport ship will be named “USS Lansing,” July 22, 2024 | Lucy Valeski Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other ...

Members of Congress are trying to block the Navy from putting just under half of its fleet of Spearhead class expeditionary fast transports into a state of reduced readiness with only skeleton crews ...

At the end of December 2023, we got word of the U.S. Navy being on the verge of receiving three brand-new floating hospitals. They are the Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) being built by Austal, but ...

The Navy has christened a 338-foot expeditionary fast transport ship called Point Loma, making the auxiliary vessel the latest to bear a name that directly or indirectly refers to San Diego. The ship ...

The future USNS Point Loma underway. (Photo courtesy of Austal USA) Austal USA announced Monday that the future USNS Point Loma, an expeditionary fast transport vessel, has completed acceptance trials ...

Austal USA has officially launched the construction of the U.S. Navy’s final Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF), the future USNS Lansing (EPF 16), with a keel laying ceremony at its Mobile, Ala.

The medical ship’s design is optimized to provide “patient holding, stabilization, evacuation, and transport in support of Distributed Maritime Operations,” the release said. “The EMS design features ...

Expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam, passing the MSC expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4) and marking the start of Pacific ...

Austal USA began construction Tuesday of the future USNS Point Loma, the 15th expeditionary fast transport of the Spearhead class to be built for the Navy. The transport ship will be the second naval ...

The USNS Brunswick cruised into Chesapeake Bay last week, concluding more than seven years of Pacific operations, including the first circumnavigation of the world by an expeditionary fast transport, ...

Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) 6, the future USNS Brunswick, recently completed acceptance trials, the U.S. Navy says. The ship, which was constructed by Austal USA, is the sixth ship of the EPF ...