Navy/USMC
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InternationalBoeing, Airbus/Northrop Grumman Consortia and General Atomics Receive NATO Study Awards for AWACS Replacement
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) on March 31 said that it has awarded $17.2 million contracts each under the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) initiative to consortia […]
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Navy/USMCBAE Systems Awarded $173.6 Million For 36 More ACVs, Receives Deal To Develop Recovery Variant
BAE Systems has received a $173.6 million production order from the Marine Corps covering delivery of 36 more Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV). Deliveries of the ACV base personnel vehicles under […]
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Navy/USMCFirst Light Amphibious Warship Purchase Pushed Back To 2025
The Navy’s fiscal year 2023 budget request pushes back the planned procurement of the first new Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) in fiscal year 2025, three years later than initially planned. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy FY 2023 Budget Request Seeks 96 Aircraft, Keeps NGAD Classified
The aviation portion of the Navy fiscal year 2023 budget request is seeking $16.8 billion to procure 96 total aircraft across the Navy and Marine Corps but is still keeping […]
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Navy/USMCNavy FY ‘23 Budget Looks To Retire 24 Ships, Reducing Total Fleet Size In Near Term
The Navy’s fiscal year 2023 budget request is seeking to buy nine more ships in 2023, but also wants to retire 24 other ships in an act that would reduce […]
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Navy/USMCGreece Finalizes Contract For Three Naval Group Frigates
Greece signed contracts with Naval Group on March 24, finalizing plans to buy at least three Defense and Intervention Frigates (FDI) for the Hellenic Navy (HN). The agreement calls for […]
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Navy/USMCSSC Hovercraft Transports CH-46 Helicopter
A Textron [TXT] Ship to Shore Connector (SSC) landing craft helped move a Boeing [BA] CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Fla., to Eglin Air Force […]
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Navy/USMCCrowley Wins Contract To Operate Tanker, Acquires Sealift Vessel For MARAD
This week Crowley announced it was awarded a charter contract for the Military Sealift Command to operate a tanker for the Defense Department and managed the acquisition of a vehicle […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology5G from Space Offers Potential Benefits for U.S. Forces, But Spectrum Access and Cybersecurity Represent Challenges
On March 5, the New York Times quoted Lt. Yevgeny Yarantsev, a Ukrainian officer leading his troops in Kyiv against Russian forces. Yarantsev told the Times that his soldiers “were […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Nominee: Force Structure Assessments Coming Soon, Confirms Need to Modernize And Clean Audit
The nominee to be the next Under Secretary of the Navy Tuesday said the service’s new force structure reviews should be coming out in the “very near future,” and he […]
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