Navy/USMC

The chair of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) seapower panel on Thursday said the FY ’18 shipbuilding authorization of $26.2 billion should be maintained before adding $3 billion when […]

Privately owned drones routinely violate restricted airspace over military bases, ships and airfields and the Pentagon wants more authority to shoot them down, Defense Secretary James Mattis on May 9 […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has resumed delivering F-35 Lightning IIs to the U.S. Department Defense after a corrosion problem halted those shipments for over a month. The “acceptance hold,” which was […]

Britain’s BAE Systems was awarded a $175 million U.S. Navy award to produce 7,000 more Advance Precision Kill Weapio System (APKWS) laser-guided rockets, the company said Tuesday. This award falls […]

The Navy on Monday  issued a Request for Information (RFI) and announced an Industry Day to help develop the replacement for the service’s old sealift and auxiliary ships. The notice, […]

Both the Army and Marine Corps are forging ahead with production of 56,000 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV), although the trucks have failed to meet some maintenance-related performance thresholds, according […]

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) last week announced a partnership with General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat (EB) wherein the company will invest $852 million in its Groton shipyard and hire […]

A week after a House panel said it might direct the Navy in its next authorization bill to rotate forward deployed ships after 10 years, Navy officials said they first […]

Navy shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] on Thursday posted strong earnings in its first quarter driven by pension adjustments, but the company cautioned that its operating margins will be lower […]

The possibility that Congress may tell the Navy to procure additional Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) in FY ’19 is not changing the Navy’s plans for buying at least 20 future […]