Navy/USMC

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Without a fiscal year 2017 budget in place, the Navy will delay a service life extension plan necessary to fly its Sikorsky MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters into […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Sea trials of the first Ford-class aircraft carrier are expected to begin this week by shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] followed by the Navy’s acceptance trials later this […]

The U.S. Navy’s new SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) has begun tracking ballistic missile targets in tests, according to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and prime contractor Raytheon […]

The U.S. Navy plans to develop and install a 60-kilowatt laser weapon system on an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG-51) and begin deploying it in fiscal year 2020, according to […]

The U.S. Navy is trying to fix a vibration problem that F-35C Lightning II pilots have experienced during catapult launches of the new carrier-based fighter jet, a service official said […]

The U.S. Navy’s shortfall of high-demand Boeing [BA] F/A-18E/F Super Hornets has grown to more than 100 fighter jets, roughly triple the figure the service cited just two years ago, […]

President Donald Trump has tapped Navy Rear Adm. Mathias “Mat” Winter to be the next director of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the Department of Defense announced March 28. […]

During large-scale exercises in April, the Marine Corps will test and evaluate 100 new technologies to help it poke holes in enemy coastal defenses and clear the way for future […]

The Army plans to issue requests for proposals (RFP) this spring for two new unmanned ground vehicles, a service official said March 23. A final RFP for the Common Robotic […]

Under a continuing resolution (CR) that lasts the entire fiscal year, the military services will be forced to make cuts to already deficient readiness accounts, ground aircraft and halt new-start […]