Navy/USMC

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is developing a backpack-portable, four-legged robot to conduct surveillance for ground troops on terrain that is too difficult for wheeled or tracked systems to […]

The U.S. Air Force and Navy have begun studying the possibility of pursuing a cooperative effort to replace their aging command-and-control aircraft. Adm. Bill Moran, vice chief of naval operations, […]

The U.S. Navy awarded four indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts worth a combined almost $76 million to provide cyberspace science, research, engineering, and technology integration, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Contracted […]

The U.S. Navy has begun developing a plan to implement its recently unveiled goal of expanding its fleet by dozens of ships, according to a service official. “There are ongoing […]

Not only is modernizing and recapitalizing the nuclear deterrent the Pentagon’s top priority, but modernizing the system’s command and control (C2) capabilities is another prerogative, according to officials. The Defense […]

The U.S. Navy loaded the first two life-extended Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles on an Ohio-class submarine last month, a service official said March 8. The event was a “significant […]

The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program has begun test-firing missiles from its surface-to- surface missile module (SSMM), which is designed to counter small boats. During a Feb. 28 […]

The Navy, which began developing the small, lightweight Spike missile over a decade ago to teach young engineers how to build weapons, is now looking to get the missile into warfighters’ […]

All the traditional helicopters that the military will field are either already in service or under development and any future work will feed directly into the multi-service Future Vertical Lift […]

The fiscal year 2017 defense appropriations bill released Thursday slams the F-35 program, accusing it of, among other things, allegedly not contracting for the proper number of aircraft in each […]