{"id":651,"date":"2015-01-19T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=651"},"modified":"2015-01-19T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:04:00","slug":"ships-starting-here-aops-contract-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Ships Starting Here AOPS Contract Signed."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhpmZBFoA84kf4UYTcgugqiCtlmoLdGyYCf28YTOeq6ryIzI3eqgzBRQXrDUS0NBRXoTRnO2O3-Xh5tOItjpeU7AM-nE0aq6uoB2UTwHQgb9rXdUYYVTgMQ9i8pgoiCtUFn2UsM1x89OsY7\/s1600\/Untitled1.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhpmZBFoA84kf4UYTcgugqiCtlmoLdGyYCf28YTOeq6ryIzI3eqgzBRQXrDUS0NBRXoTRnO2O3-Xh5tOItjpeU7AM-nE0aq6uoB2UTwHQgb9rXdUYYVTgMQ9i8pgoiCtUFn2UsM1x89OsY7\/s1600\/Untitled1.png\" height=\"356\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; In a technical briefing with media in Ottawa Friday morning,<br \/>\nrepresentatives from Public Works Government Services Canada, the<br \/>\nCanadian Navy and Irving Shipbuilding provided an overview of the Arctic<br \/>\n Offshore Patrol ship program including the ship\u2019s design and<br \/>\ncapability, the number of ships to be built and the construction<br \/>\nschedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Shipyards contract with the government is for six ships. The build contract is valued<br \/>\nat $2.3 billion. Should costs increase due to unforeseen factors, the<br \/>\ncontract will guarantee the delivery of five ships within the same<br \/>\nceiling price ($2.3 billion). Basically the contract is for 5, but if they come in at a good price, they will build 6.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiMqtUg9ATAlEGyUHzG9PydbWLdm7aFStaB63nfbmRdVlOPqxVQ91MUQTR4y6_s7e0pUIdb_WWUGUSEL07r4_J97-6YflityzNKiEYEtMuBAwolOaNIwIu-XrDO7oggoIDibTWY8q7Sw8lA\/s1600\/Untitled.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiMqtUg9ATAlEGyUHzG9PydbWLdm7aFStaB63nfbmRdVlOPqxVQ91MUQTR4y6_s7e0pUIdb_WWUGUSEL07r4_J97-6YflityzNKiEYEtMuBAwolOaNIwIu-XrDO7oggoIDibTWY8q7Sw8lA\/s1600\/Untitled.png\" height=\"292\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nConstruction of the first sections of the vessels \u2013 known as initial<br \/>\nblocks or production test modules \u2013 will begin in June. The shipyard<br \/>\nwill test its new infrastructure, environment and production processes,<br \/>\nwith these initial blocks. Cutting of steel for the first AOPS ship is<br \/>\non target for September 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In a technical briefing with media in Ottawa Friday morning, representatives from Public Works Government Services Canada, the Canadian Navy and Irving Shipbuilding provided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,45,41,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aops","category-halifax-shipyard","category-navy","category-nsps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}