The Naval Facilities Engineering Command website lists Project 480 (Alternative Metal Hot Cutting Operations For Opacity) status as Active: http://www.nesdi.navy.mil/ProjectsCurrent.aspx
There were many fuels tested, going to take awhile to release the results. It's a complicated mixture of many factors: cost, speed, ease of use, shipboard dynamics, opacity, many more.
MNGA and regarding the Navy contract Ng. It just dawned on me tonight that the govt fiscal year just began and $$$ that have been promised are now being divvied out. Also if I'm not mistaken and I could be but usually suppliers contracts also expire at the end of the fiscal year and new ones are given out. That said maybe we'll be hearing something from them in the near future. They do seem to be pretty busy expanding down there.