Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCCarrier Begins Sea Trials After Four-Year Overhaul
The U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) began its first sea trials Tuesday after a four years-long refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) period. The last time the […]
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Navy/USMCNot Meant To Swim: Marines’ Planned For ACV 1.1 To Have Limited Open Water Mobility
When the Marine Corps decided to buy a series of increasingly capable amphibious combat vehicles (ACV) it planned on earlier versions being optimized for ground combat ashore with the understanding […]
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Navy/USMCACV Competitors Set Up California Camps, Begin Receiving Vehicles For Swim Testing
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Yards away from a faded green landing vehicle-tracked (LVT) that participated in the island hopping campaign against Japan, Marines are beginning tests on two vehicles competing […]
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Wins $327 Million Initial Production Contract For AMDR
The U.S. Navy on May 1 awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $327 million fixed-price-incentive (firm target) contract modification option to produce the first three low-rate initial production (LRIP) AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile […]
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Navy/USMCFirst Foreign-Built F-35B Rolls Off Italian Assembly Line
The first Lockheed Martin [LMT] short-takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B assembled outside the United States rolled out of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Italy on May […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Delays Future Frigate Contract To 2020
The U.S. Navy is planning to delay a detail design and construction (DD&C) contract for the Future Frigate until 2020 in order to explore incorporating new capabilities and enhanced survivability […]
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BudgetCounter-Drone Lasers Funded In FY 2017 Omnibus Bill
The fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill could help move laser weapons to the battlefield after decades of development, according to a key lawmaker. The recently unveiled legislation contains $16.7 […]
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Navy/USMCAt Live Exercises Marines Seek New Ways Of Testing, Fielding Tech Faster
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – For two weeks in April, the 17 miles of undeveloped beachfront the Marine Corps maintains here became a “sandbox” in which weapon makers, operators and engineers […]
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Navy/USMCHouse Subcommittee Leaders Support 355 Ship Fleet, Look For Decades-Long Path
The leaders of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces both support the U.S. Navy’s assessment of increasing the fleet to 355 ships but recognize a decades-long […]
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ArmySOCOM Acquisition Trailblazing Could Streamline DoD Weapon Buying
Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which relies on the military services to provide much of its enabling technologies and platforms, has begun blazing trails to new technologies and sharing that knowledge […]