Navy/USMC

The U.S. Defense Department and Australian Department of Defense expanded their cooperative partnership on the Next Generation Jammer by signing a project arrangement on future variants. In the July 13 […]

The U.S. delivered the first Bell [TXT] – Boeing [BA] V-22 Osprey to Japan at Camp Kisarazu on July 10, according to news releases from the companies that jointly build […]

The Navy issued a sources sought notice on July 10 to find businesses that can potentially design, manufacture, assemble, test and deliver the upgraded COBRA Block II mine detection system. […]

The Navy awarded L3Harris Technologies [LHX] a $35 million contract on Monday for the detail design and fabrication of a prototype Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV). The contract also includes […]

A fire was burning over a day after it started on Sunday on the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) while moored pierside at Naval Base San Diego. […]

The House Appropriations Defense panel’s fiscal year 2021 draft bill recommends preventing the Navy from decommissioning any Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) and restricts a pilot private ship maintenance program. The […]

General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works [GD] (BIW) president Dirk Lesko announced layoffs and production staying below typical operations due to the continued strike by Local S6 of the Machinists Union. […]

Israel’s Elbit Systems said Thursday it recently tested flying a mini-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) from its Seagull Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV). The company said the mini-UAS has a takeoff weight […]

The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) on July 7 for an extended carrier incremental availability maintenance period. The Truman arrived following a seven month-long deployment […]

Amendments to the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill last week pushed adding an MQ-4 Triton unmanned aircraft as well as reports on developing […]