Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMC
Stennis Finishes Sea Trials Five Days Early
The Navy’s Nimitz-class USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) aircraft carrier completed sea trials five days early, the Navy said Monday. The sea trials were the last part of the ship’s […]
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Navy/USMC
BAE Officially Bids Type 26 Ship For Future Australian Anti-Sub Frigate
Britain’s BAE Systems has submitted a bid to the Australian Government for the country’s planned nine anti-submarine frigates, the company said Aug. 10. BAE is one of three companies bidding […]
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Navy/USMC
Stennis Returns To Sea Trials After Six Month Of Maintenance
The Navy’s Nimitz-class USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) aircraft carrier went underway for sea trials Aug. 11, part of a planned six-month maintenance period. CVN-74 entered a planned incremental availability (PIA) […]
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Navy/USMC
Commandant Orders 24-Hour Pause In All Flight Ops Following MV-22 Crash
All Marine Corps aviation units will at some point during the next two weeks suspend flight operations for 24 hours as a result of the Aug. 5 crash of an […]
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Congress
F-35 Upgrade Plan Nears Completion, GAO Says
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to send Congress this month a multi-billion-dollar upgrade plan for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said […]
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Navy/USMC
Military OK’d To Use ‘Reasonable Force” To Destroy Unauthorized Drones Over Bases
The Defense Department has issued guidance on how to deal with unauthorized commercial drones flying over U.S. military bases, though just how troops are able to shoot them down or […]
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Navy/USMC
Osprey Operations Ongoing As Recovery Of Downed MV-22 Continues Off Australia
The Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys stationed on Okinawa remained operational Aug.7 as U.S. and Australian navy vessels attempted to recover wreckage of a downed tiltrotor off the east coast of […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Conducts Second Successful AMDR Missile Test
The U.S. Navy successfully completed a ballistic missile defense flight test with the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) off the west coast of Hawaii last week, the Navy […]
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Air Force
DoD Reviewing Schedule For Replacing Nuclear Force
The U.S. Department of Defense’s nuclear posture review is looking at whether the schedule for replacing the three legs of the aging nuclear triad should be revised, a Pentagon official […]
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Navy/USMC
Senate Confirms Top DoD Positions Including Spencer As Navy Secretary, Lord At AT&L
The Senate confirmed Richard V. Spencer as the newest secretary of the Navy on Tuesday as well as seven other civilian Defense Department nominees. Spencer succeeds acting Secretary Sean Stackley […]
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