Navy/USMC

Boeing [BA] is hopeful that Marine Corps plans to retire four squadrons of EA-6B Prowlers for electronic attack warfare will open the door for extending the production line for F/A-18s, […]

The Navy has opened a center to train future operators of the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter in a sign of the service’s long term commitment to the system for […]

The head of the Pentagon’s Strategic Command (STRATCOM) vigorously defended yesterday plans to build 12 SSBN(X) ballistic-missile submarines, suggesting the number of vessels could even increase. Lawmakers and Pentagon officials […]

U.K. Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond yesterday officially received the first two of a planned 62 AgustaWestland Wildcat helicopters for the army and navy. At the Farnborough International Air Show, Hammond […]

The Navy this week completed a second round of sea-based testing of the communications software that will be used to guide its envisioned aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle on take-offs […]

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter reached the highest monthly total of test points yet during June, Lockheed Martin [LMT] said yesterday, in a positive step for a program that has […]

Textron [TXT] has been awarded a $212.7-million contract by the Navy for the first of the next generation of amphibious landing craft designed for launch from ships to ferry Marines, […]

The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $27 million contract to provide the parts for 22 Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine missiles with advancement that included extended range and guidance, the […]

Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], said yesterday it signed a five-year, $8.5 billion contract to provide the Army and Navy with a baseline quantity of 653 H-60 […]

The demand for Aegis-equipped cruisers and destroyers for carrying out ballistic missile defense (BMD) could put pressure on those ships for performing other missions, such as strike, around the world, […]