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REAL ID requirement goes into effect for visitors to Maxwell AFB and Gunter Annex

May 15, 2025

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Troy Turner

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MONTGOMERY — Visitors planning to access Maxwell Air Force Base or Gunter Annex should be aware of a new requirement that began on May 7, 2025: A REAL ID-compliant credential is required for entry. The change, mandated by the REAL ID Act of 2005, affects all individuals seeking visitor passes. Similar requirements exist at all…

USNS Comfort to be deployed on Continuing Promise 2025 mission

May 15, 2025

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Troy Turner

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ARMY, NAVY

The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, a routine sight in Mobile Bay in recent years, will deploy June-August to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations as part of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2025 mission. Alabama Shipyard, LLC in Mobile won contracts from the Navy for two of the…

Northrop Grumman contract modified to almost $2 billion for missile defense target systems

May 10, 2025

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, ARMY, CONTRACTS, MARINES, NAVY

By Troy Turner [email protected] HUNTSVILLE — The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Chandler, Arizona, a contract modification that ups the value to almost $2 billion for the company’s work in providing complex missile defense target systems for the U.S. military. The MDA’s Redstone Arsenal operation in Huntsville, Alabama, and the Department of…

Navy exec pays visit to Austal USA submarine-production facilities

May 9, 2025

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Troy Turner

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NAVY

MOBILE –Rear Admiral Jonathan Rucker, the Navy’s program executive officer for attack submarines, on Thursday visited Mobile where he addressed more than 200 members of the Austal USA and General Dynamics Electric Boat submarine manufacturing team. Rucker emphasized the importance of their work on the Virginia- and Columbia-class submarine programs before touring Austal’s ship manufacturing…

USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park names its 2025-26 Crewmates; see photos from years past

April 30, 2025

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Troy Turner

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NAVY

Special to AlaDefense.com (See photos below of Crewmates from years past.) MOBILE — USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park announced on Tuesday the selection of the 2025-26 USS Alabama Crewmates, each of whom will serve as ambassadors for the park during the coming year. The USS Alabama Crewmates will be awarded a $2,000 scholarship to the…

Alabama’s first quantum computer nears mission-ready status for missile defense; Davidson preps for DOD needs

April 24, 2025

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, ARMY, CYBERSECURITY, MARINES, NAVY, SPACE FORCE

By Troy Turner [email protected] HUNTSVILLE – Final preparations are under way for Alabama’s first quantum computer, touted as the most advanced in the world, to become fully operational and available for a wide range of research and crucial tasks such as missile defense, biomedical research and streamlined supply chain management, to name a few. Once…

Austal USA ceremony for future USNS Solomon Atkinson honors one of the first Navy SEALs

April 21, 2025

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Troy Turner

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CONTRACTS, NAVY

MOBILE – Austal USA celebrated the official start of construction on the future USNS Solomon Atkinson (T-ATS 12), the Navy’s seventh Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship, with a keel-laying ceremony April 16 honoring its namesake, who became one of the first U.S. Navy SEALs. The keel-laying symbolically recognizes the ceremonial beginning of the construction of…

‘Ready 4 Duty’ visits Maxwell AFB to kick off WWII Allied victory 80th Anniversary tour

April 21, 2025

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, ARMY, NAVY

By Airman 1st Class Nelvis Sera 42nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Alabama —The Commemorative Air Force “Ready 4 Duty” Douglas R4D-6S, a historic U.S. Navy variant of the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, visited Maxwell Air Force Base on April 17 as the first official stop of its transatlantic “Navy to Victory…

Space Command HQ inspector general report offers no clear answer on best location, but Alabama and Colorado both tout findings

April 16, 2025

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, ARMY, COAST GUARD, CYBERSECURITY, MARINES, NAVY, SPACE FORCE

By: Lindsey Toomer Colorado Newsline A U.S. Department of Defense inspector general report evaluating the decision on where to house U.S. Space Command headquarters highlights the key points of contention in the selection process and why certain agencies had a preference on where it should be located. The report found that while Air Force leaders decided Redstone Arsenal…

Austal USA contracted to perform additional prep work for the USS Pierre

April 12, 2025

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Troy Turner

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CONTRACTS, MARINES, NAVY

By Troy Turner [email protected] Mobile-based Austal USA received a nearly $10.7 million Navy task order to provide “advance planning, material procurement and accomplishment of work” for availabilities in support of the USS Pierre littoral combat ship. Work will be performed in National City, California, and is expected to be completed by December 2026. Austal USA…

USNS Laramie slatted to make return service call to Alabama Shipyard LLC

April 12, 2025

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Troy Turner

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CONTRACTS, NAVY

By Troy Turner [email protected] Alabama Shipyard LLC, Mobile, earned a nearly $12.5 million contract with the Navy for shipyard availability and scheduled maintenance on the Military Sealift Command’s fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie. The contract is similar to previous contracts Alabama Shipyard has garnered from the Department of Defense and Navy to work on the…

Huntsville’s Synovix Inc. to support Sidewinder intercept missile program used by Navy, USMC

March 31, 2025

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Troy Turner

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AIR FORCE, CONTRACTS, MARINES, NAVY

By Troy Turner [email protected] The U.S. Navy has chosen Huntsville-based Synovix Inc. and another company to share in a $48 million contract to manufacture the optical dome for the Navy’s Sidewinder air intercept missile. The Sidewinder is an air-to-air, supersonic, guided missile. Synovix’s work supports the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, and…

REAL ID requirement goes into effect for visitors to Maxwell AFB and Gunter Annex

USNS Comfort to be deployed on Continuing Promise 2025 mission

Northrop Grumman contract modified to almost $2 billion for missile defense target systems

Navy exec pays visit to Austal USA submarine-production facilities

USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park names its 2025-26 Crewmates; see photos from years past

Alabama’s first quantum computer nears mission-ready status for missile defense; Davidson preps for DOD needs

Austal USA ceremony for future USNS Solomon Atkinson honors one of the first Navy SEALs

‘Ready 4 Duty’ visits Maxwell AFB to kick off WWII Allied victory 80th Anniversary tour

Space Command HQ inspector general report offers no clear answer on best location, but Alabama and Colorado both tout findings

Austal USA contracted to perform additional prep work for the USS Pierre

USNS Laramie slatted to make return service call to Alabama Shipyard LLC

Huntsville’s Synovix Inc. to support Sidewinder intercept missile program used by Navy, USMC

Soldiers and Marines train together at Fort Rucker in rescuing of downed aviators

TURNER: Boeing’s ‘coolest thing’ missile contribution in Huntsville plays a critical role that isn’t going away

For Old Guard soldiers, ‘Flags In’ is a personal mission

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