Navy/USMC

A top Navy official said the service plans to deploy the first conventional hypersonic weapons on Ohio-class submarines by 2025 before adding them to newer Virginia-class vessels starting in 2028. […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] will be integrating Magnetic Anomaly Detection-Extended Role (MAD-XR) systems on six Navy MH-60R helicopters as part of a new subcontract announced with CAE. The integration will give […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy successfully intercepted an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)-type target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile over the Pacific Ocean on Nov. […]

Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite on Tuesday said he wants to stand up a new numbered fleet, U.S. 1st Fleet, at the border of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. […]

The Navy is happy to share knowledge about weapons with the Air Force, so long as it does not actually have to share a nuclear weapon with the Air Force, […]

The Navy’s commander of the submarine forces said the service is looking at three tracks for SSN (X), the next generation attack submarine: using the Virginia-class attack submarine, Columbia-class ballistic […]

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) acquired a logistics Unmanned Air System (UAS) prototype in October to demonstrate long-range naval ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore cargo transport and it is […]

In what could be a boon to submarine subcontractors and the broader nuclear-naval industry, the Navy is looking at buying components for Columbia-class submarines, especially boats that will follow the […]

Senate appropriators knocked the Navy’s Large Surface Combatant (LSC) schedule plan and the draft defense spending bill would cut funding due to a lack of clear understanding over the ship […]

The Navy is still planning to move forward on former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s Battle Force 2045 plan to pursue a 500-ship fleet even though he was fired, a […]