Navy/USMC

Outgoing Navy Secretary Ray Mabus believes the industrial base can support a force structure of 355 ships due to hot production lines and investments in shipyards. The 2016 Navy Force […]

The Pentagon’s chief weapon tester predicts the F-35 program might not start initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) until late 2018 at the earliest and 2020 at the latest. In […]

The Knifefish unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), a mine-hunter that General Dynamics [GD] is developing for the Navy, had a successful series of contractor tests last month, a service official said […]

A Marine Corps fighter squadron has deployed for Japan equipped with the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, marking the first overseas stationing of the aircraft since the service declared it fit […]

Developing and building 12 Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines is expected to cost about $100 billion, the Navy said Jan. 9. The disclosure of the acquisition price tag came five days […]

The Navy has formally received the go-ahead to begin detailed design of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall signed a memorandum late Jan. 4 authorizing the […]

In a lengthy 11th-hour memo to President Barack Obama, outgoing Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out an argument that the U.S. military is in better shape than it was eight […]

A Lockheed Martin [LMT] senior executive and a former civilian official of both the Navy and Air Force met Tuesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at Trump Tower in New […]

Following closed-door meetings with senior military officials and the chief executives of both Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT], President-elect Donald Trump claims to have secured lower-cost deals on two […]

Adding refueling equipment to the U.S. Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is expected to increase the on-station time of the aircraft carrier-based, command-and-control airplane by over 85 percent, according to an […]