NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Navy is set to test a fix to the Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) engine next month, but currently deployed ships may have to wait years for the fix. In January, the Navy stopped accepting delivery of the variant due to a material defect in the combining ...
Rich Abott
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Navy is planning to bring in candidates to be a second Constellation-class (FFG-62) frigate shipbuilder early in the process before competition to minimize difficulties and added costs. Capt. Kevin Smith, program manager of the new frigate class, PMS-515, admitted ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Navy plans to establish two MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker squadrons to deploy detachments to aircraft carriers and will next conduct a test refuel on an E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft. Later this year the Navy plans to standup the MQ-25A fleet ...
The State Department approved a potential $3.4 billion Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of 18 CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopters to Israel as well as an $83.5 million sale of hundreds of Javelin missiles to Thailand. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the sale ...
A House panel is looking to have the Navy brief it on adding mine countermeasures (MCM) systems on Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships and adding lasers to current and future destroyers. In its mark of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection ...
The House Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee approved and reported its mark of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization act to the full committee on Wednesday after adding a series of amendments relating to Navy ship procurement. The subcommittee approved both a series of five en bloc ...