{"id":135027,"date":"2017-11-29T22:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T03:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=135027"},"modified":"2017-11-29T22:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T03:05:59","slug":"acceptance-procedures-for-frigate-components-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/29\/acceptance-procedures-for-frigate-components-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance procedures for frigate components ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135028\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rigging-918920_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135028\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rigging-918920_640.jpg\" alt=\"The Frigate Acquisition Project (FAP) is proceeding as scheduled and we are now finalizing the Technical Inspection and Acceptance procedures for the many components that will comprise the two frigates,&quot; he said in a message to the Philippine News Agency. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rigging-918920_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rigging-918920_640-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Frigate Acquisition Project (FAP) is proceeding as scheduled and we are now finalizing the Technical Inspection and Acceptance procedures for the many components that will comprise the two frigates,&#8221; he said in a message to the Philippine News Agency. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Technical inspection and acceptance procedures for components that will be installed on the Philippines&#8217; first two missile-firing frigates are now being finalized.<\/p>\n<p>This was bared by Department of National Defense (DND) public affairs office chief Arsenio Andolong on Wednesday when asked on the progress of the modernization project worth PHP18 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Frigate Acquisition Project (FAP) is proceeding as scheduled and we are now finalizing the Technical Inspection and Acceptance procedures for the many components that will comprise the two frigates,&#8221; he said in a message to the Philippine News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>This stage includes possible selection of weapons, propulsion and sensor systems on the two frigates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect the concerned parties to submit the checklists, which are required in the Technical Inspection process, not later than December 1, 2017,&#8221; Andolong said.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 24, 2016, DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana formally inked the contract for the FAP, together with officials and delegates from South Korea&#8217;s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) at the PN&#8217;s headquarters in Naval Station Andrada, Roxas Boulevard, Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The project involves the construction and delivery of two missile-firing frigates to the PN.<\/p>\n<p>As background, the Notice of Award was approved, issued and was duly conformed by HHI on Sept. 13, 2016 with the amount of USD336,912,000 or PHP15,744,571,584.<\/p>\n<p>An additional PHP2 billion was allocated for the acquisition of assorted weapon systems and munitions.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Technical inspection and acceptance procedures for components that will be installed on the Philippines&#8217; first two missile-firing frigates are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[18461,20281,36152,36151,20282,36154,36153],"class_list":["post-135027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-arsenio-andolong","tag-department-of-national-defense-dnd","tag-frigate-acquisition-project-fap","tag-missile-firing-frigates","tag-secretary-delfin-lorenzana","tag-south-koreas-hyundai-heavy-industries-hhi","tag-technical-inspection","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}