Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Austal USA in Mobile officially christened its first steel ship made for the U.S. Navy, the Future USNS ...

The Mobile-based shipbuilder ends its three-month search and promotes the interim leader.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Austal USA, an Alabama-based shipbuilder that makes vessels for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud ...

Something new is emerging from an Austal USA’s construction shed across the river from downtown Mobile. This isn’t the aluminum origami prow of a Littoral Combat Ship or an Expeditionary Fast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama shipbuilder Austal USA launched the expeditionary fast transport Newport into the Mobile River in 2020. (Courtesy of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — When Austal USA was not selected in April 2020 by the Pentagon to build a frigate for the U.S. Navy, many worried about the future of Mobile’s largest industrial employer. Craig ...

This is the second U.S. Navy vessel to be named after Pierre, the capital city of South Dakota. The ship’s sponsor is Larissa Thune, daughter of Senate Leader John Thune. Larissa welded her initials ...

Austal USA earlier this month celebrated the start of construction on the first of three LCU 1710 Landing Craft Utility vessels for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Mobile, Ala. shipyard. Austal USA, a ...

(Tribune News Service) — With the push of a button Monday morning, a plasma cutter flared to life and began slicing a steel plate, making the first cut on materials that will become Austal USA’s first ...

In the tense hours before the U.S. Coast Guard awarded the Offshore Patrol Cutter “Stage 2,” a $3.3 billion dollar contract to build up to 11 Heritage class Offshore Patrol Cutters, shipbuilding ...