Navy/USMC

A Navy solicitation showed the service is testing systems that can be used for an Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) mine sweeping swarm capability. According to the solicitation, posted Feb. 10, […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Monday said it has successfully demonstrated its airborne data gateway aboard an MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system flying testbed to link various naval assets, including the […]

A recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report found the Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets seem to be aging worse than the older F/A-18C/D predecessors, particularly with lower availability rates. […]

Russia’s military posture in the Arctic region is becoming more offensive-based while the U.S. government sees it largely as rebuilding former Soviet capabilities, participants in a think tank panel said […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring the future U.S. use of autonomous drone swarms against high-tech adversaries under the agency’s Autonomous Multi-Domain Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms (AMASS) program. Responses […]

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysis found sustainment challenges worsened from 2011 to 202 over 10 ship classes. GAO identified the worsening sustainment issues include “increasing depot maintenance delays, […]

The Navy said on Feb. 3 that production of the MK 18 Mod 2 Kingfish Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) program of record has completed. MK 18 Mod 2 production started […]

Bell [TXT]/Boeing [BA] V-22s Osprey tiltrotor aircraft across the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force are getting time limits and some aircraft are being grounded due to an engine clutch […]

The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Marinette (LCS-25) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) on Feb. 3 at the builder’s Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wis. The odd-numbered […]

The Navy is planning to conduct a hypersonic missile test launch off the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) by December 2025, an official said recently. “So timeline-wise…we’re supposed to do a test […]