The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier started Aircraft Compatibility Testing (ACT) last week while Navy officials noted this will be one of 11 underway times during the Post Delivery Test and Trial (PDT&T) period. The Ford left its Norfolk, Va., homeport on Jan. 16 to start the ACT ...

The Navy’s top acquisition official this week said the Navy and Marine Corps are seriously considering using the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) as a Marine Corps shore-based anti-ship battery. “Just yesterday we had the team in that does the Naval Strike Missile on LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) ...

The Navy portion of the fiscal year 2021 presidential budget will include schedule adjustments for when the service plans to formally acquire large unmanned surface vessels (LUSVs), a service official said. Jan. 16. “The prototypes are ongoing now, [but] when are we going to transition to a ...

Boeing [BA] on Wednesday said that it and the Navy recently completed the first flight of an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft with the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Block II sensor pod, a milestone on the way to delivery in 2021. The IRST Block II sensor is one of the key components that will be [ ...

The Navy is studying how to backfit older Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Flight IIA destroyers with a variant of the new AN/SPY-6 radar, officials said Wednesday. “We’re working hard – it’s in the budget for the start of [FY] ’21, that we’ll work toward a backfit solution for Flight II ...

The Navy deserves a larger cut of the annual budget to ensure it is prepared for its role in a future conflict with peer adversaries, but must make tough choices and coordinate both Navy and Marine Corps assets to successfully make that case to Congress, a House Armed Services Committee member and ...