Navy/USMC

The U.S. Navy took delivery of the latest Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships the future USS Sioux City (LCS-11) and USS Wichita (LCS-13) during a ceremony on Wednesday at shipbuilder Fincantieri […]

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Boeing’s [BA] Insitu Inc. a $54 million contract on Tuesday to produce four full-rate production Lot II RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) […]

The Pentagon’s plan to deploy the first hypersonics and directed energy (DE) weapons capabilities by the early 2020s and match increasing investments from China and Russia will require the services […]

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded BAE Systems a $146 million contract to conduct fiscal year (FY) 2018 modernization and maintenance on the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG-64). The […]

The Navy on Friday awarded Boeing [BA] a $152.5 million contract to design, develop, integrate, and test the Infrared Search and Track System (IRST) Block II. IRST Block II is […]

The United Kingdom’s newest aircraft carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, started traveling to the U.S. on Friday to test F-35B landings on its deck for the first time. These tests […]

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the information the military collects about aviation mishaps found the services do not track all relevant data and each have different standards, […]

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md.–The U.S. Marine Corps is beginning to develop its own requirements for a next-generation rotorcraft and hopes to find common ground with the Army as […]

CACI International [CACI] on Thursday said it has acquired a professional services unit from General Dynamics [GD] that bolsters CACI’s work with the Navy and provides it with the opportunity […]

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md.–Nearing the end of production for the most-advanced H-1 utility and attack helicopters, the U.S. Marine Corps is planning for how it will efficiently maintain […]