U.S. Navy to build two new oceanographic research vessels

摘要

The U.S. Navy has awarded $70 million to a West Coast-based shipyard to begin building the second of two modern oceanographic research vessels for the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Dakota Creek Industries Inc. of Anacortes, Washington, will begin detail design and construction on the Ocean-class Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) 28. Naval Sea Systems Command previously awarded a contract for AGOR 27, the first of the two new research ships.