Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Friday denied Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] protest of a $1.6 billion Navy contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Broad Area Maritime […]

Alliant Techsystems [ATK], the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force this month successfully completed another missile firing of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air […]

By Geoff Fein While it seems much of the focus on the Navy these days is on the volatility in shipbuilding, the Navy is delivering between six and seven ships […]

By Geoff Fein Testing on the giant motor generator that will be used to power the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on the Navy’s next-generation carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, […]

By Calvin Biesecker Alliant Techsystems [ATK] yesterday posted strong earnings and sales to open its new fiscal year, powered by record results in its ammunition business that more than offset […]

By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–The Navy and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) are still working out how the service and the company will proceed forward following a report […]

By Calvin Biesecker Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire United States shipbuilder Manitowac Marine Group (MMG) for $120 million, expanding the company’s naval […]

By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–Although contract award for construction of Block III of the Virginia class submarines is not expected until the end of the year, both General Dynamics […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and its industry partners prepare to begin building two Virginia-class submarines a year, Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) facility is instituting a number […]

By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–Delivery of CVN-77, the George H.W. Bush, will be approximately one month late, but Northrop Grumman [NOC] will have the ship ready for the January […]