Navy/USMC

The Navy’s F-35C aircraft joined a carrier air wing for the first cyclic operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in Operational Test-1 (OT-1) during August, the […]

The underwater robotics company UUV Aquabotix Ltd. was accepted as a member of the Navy’s new Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) consortium, the company said on Monday. The IWRP, falling […]

Bell [TXT] recently was awarded a contract worth more than half a billion dollars to build new attack helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps. The $509 million deal covers the […]

The U.S. Navy officially reestablished the U.S. 2nd Fleet on Friday in a ceremony in Norfolk, Va., where the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said its area will […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) successfully conducted a series of free flight demonstrations of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-X (MALD-X) this week, the Department said on Thursday. The MALD-X is […]

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 […]