Navy/USMC

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  – Once a remote-controlled assault amphibious vehicle trundled ashore here, it stopped and released from its hold a ground robot that continued its way across the wide […]

BWX Technologies [BWXT] said last week that the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program awarded the company’s Nuclear Fuel Services subsidiary $141.7 million in first quarter contract options for nuclear submarine […]

A Navy proposal to speed up the purchase of three Virginia-class attack submarines is a welcome step but would make only a modest dent in the military’s shortfall of those […]

The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics [GD] a $47 million five year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for task orders to provide various information technology services and management to several Navy commands. The […]

U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) falls far short of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets it needs to keep close tabs on potential adversaries in its area of responsibility, according […]

The U.S. Navy plans to publish a paper in mid-May that will lay out a “vision” for its future force, service officials said April 27. The article will explain how […]

The U.S. Navy, which wants to expand its fleet to 355 ships, would have to spend an average of $26.6 billion a year over the next 30 years to reach […]