Navy/USMC

HII [HII] is putting up $900 million in potential contracts to two companies providing robotic manufacturing technology—GrayMatter Robotics and Path Robotics—to bring on new capabilities for Navy shipbuilding, speed production […]

Lower cost, $300,000 or less cruise missiles and their engines present a significant opportunity for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS], its CEO said this week. “The Family of Affordable Mass […]

HII [HII] is moving forward in its strategic partnership with South Korea’s  HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) through a pilot program that will use more intelligent mechanized welding equipment, expanding […]

The first Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)) could cost upwards of $23 billion while the entire class of 15 ships may cost $275 billion and follow-on ships costing $18 billion each, far […]

Expeditionary manufacturing system provider Firestorm Labs used its containerized production cell to 3D print more than 1,000 parts during the biennial RIMPAC 2026 maritime exercise that concluded last week, the […]

The Marine Corps has affirmed plans to award a sole-source deal to Anduril Industries to provide a counter-small unmanned aerial systems (C-sUAS) capability for Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV), with an […]

RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon business unit delivered and installed the first SPY-6(V)4 radar array for testing at the Navy’s Surface Combat Systems Center at Wallops Island in Virginia before it later […]

The Pentagon has given the green light to low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the F-35 fighter’s new APG-85 active electronically scanned array radar by Northrop Grumman [NOC], according to the […]

A major international maritime exercise that wrapped up last week around the Hawaiian Islands demonstrated the value of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) used to ferry parts and materials from shore […]

TOTE Services LLC, the Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) for the Navy and Marine Corps’ Medium Landing Ships (LSM), sees this ship class program as a test case for expanding the […]