Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCAmphibious Combat Vehicles Nearing End Of Testing, RFP Due In December
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO , Va. – For the third year in a row, dueling wheeled amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs) are center stage at the Modern Day Marine expo here. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Moves NGEN-R Awards To Late 2018
The Navy on Wednesday said it is moving back the award schedule of the Navy and Marine Corps’ next generation information technology (IT) services contract re-compete award to late 2018. […]
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Navy/USMCCommandant Prepares Marines To ‘Fight To Get To The Fight’ In Future War
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va.–For the past 16 years, Marines have been in almost constant combat somewhere in the world, but none of them had to “fight to get to […]
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Navy/USMCSenate Takes Turn To Grill Navy Officials Over Ship Collisions
Senate Armed Services Committee members were at times frustrated as they questioned the top Navy leaders Tuesday over a series of ship collisions resulting in severe damage and deaths. This […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Wants Open, Plug-And-Play Combat Vehicles
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va.–The Marine Corps has enshrined open architecture in its master technology investment plan as a means to rapidly upgrade communications technology as new equipment emerges. Listed […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Accepts Another LPD And LCS
The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of the future Amphibious Transport Dock USS Portland (LPD-27) and future Littoral Combat Ship USS Omaha (LCS-12), the Navy said Monday. LPD-27 completed acceptance […]
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Navy/USMCNew Head Of Seventh Fleet Relieves Two More Commanders
Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer, the new commander of the Seventh Fleet, relieved the commander of Task Force 70 (CTF-70) and commander of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON)-15, the Navy said Monday. Sawyer […]
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Navy/USMCExpeditionary Transport Finishes Builder’s Trials
The ninth Austal USA-built Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel, the USNS City of Bismark (EPF-9) finished builder’s trials last Thursday, the Navy said. The tests, which occurred over two days while […]
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InternationalBoeing Wins $677 Million F-18 Contract and Sale of Super Hornets To Canada
The U.S. government this week awarded Boeing [BA] a modification to a previously awarded Navy contract for full-rate production of 14 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft while also approving the Foreign […]
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CyberNavy Sends Cyber Team To Investigate Network Vulnerability Factor In USS McCain Collision
The Navy is deploying a cyber analysis team to investigate the potential role of network vulnerabilities on one of its two destroyers involved in deadly collisions during a three-month span this […]