Navy/USMC
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Space
Task Force 66 Chief Touts Commercial Satellite Benefits For Maritime Domain Awareness
Commercial remote sensing data and imagery has proven to be useful in allowing the Navy to alert allies and partners to potential bad behavior in the maritime domain due to […]
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Navy/USMC
Hanwha Invests Another $5 Billion In Philly Shipyard
South Korean conglomerate Hanwha this week announced it is investing another $5 billion in its Philly Shipyard via a new infrastructure plan to boost production capacity. Hanwha bought the shipyard […]
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Unmanned Systems
Second Saildrone USV Gets ABS Classification
Saildrone on Wednesday announced its Surveyor-class unmanned surface vehicle (USV) received full classification from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), its second vehicle to do so. Previously, Saildrone’s Voyager-class USV […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Tech Accelerator Preps Opportunity To Demo Prototype High Speed Weapons
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division is preparing to issue an opportunity for vendors to demonstrate prototype high speed weapons, with the goal of seeing a wide range of […]
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Navy/USMC
SecNav Establishes Naval Rapid Capabilities Office, Consolidating Other Offices
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan recently established a new Naval Rapid Capabilities Office (NRCO), which will consolidate the work of several other offices established in previous administrations. According to […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy and RTX Conduct First Live Test of SPY-6(V)4 Radar
RTX and the Navy recently marked the first live test of the AN/SPY-6(V)4 radar at a Hawaii facility, the company said Tuesday. This involved testing the radar multiple times over […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Blue Water Autonomy Raises $50 Million To Build First Long-Range Autonomous Ship
Autonomous ship developer Blue Water Autonomy has raised $50 million in a new funding round the startup is putting toward construction of its first long-range autonomous ship that it plans […]
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Air Force
RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Receives $2.8 Billion for Lot 18 of F135
RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney has received a $2.8 billion U.S. Navy contract for Lot 18 F135 engines for the three variants of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II […]
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Congress
House Lawmakers Introduce Their Version Of AUKUS Industrial Base Collab Bill
Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Gabi Amo (D-R.I.) on Friday introduced legislation to exempt entities already approved for AUKUS work from another Foreign Military Sales requirement, matching a bill introduced […]
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Air Force
USAF Should Leverage U.S. Army/Marine Corps’ Systems for Base Defense, Study Says
The U.S. Air Force needs to develop its own passive and active defenses for airfields and airbases that may sprout up as the service pursues its Agile Combat Employment concept […]