Navy/USMC

The USS Fort Worth, a Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-3) that experienced an “engineering problem” in January, sustained less damage than an initial assessment indicated, a U.S. Navy spokesman said […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is gearing up to conduct a swarming technology demonstration in which 30 small Coyote unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will be tube-launched within two minutes […]

NanoRacks, a company doing business on the International Space Station (ISS), has launched roughly six Defense Department payloads into space via ISS, a company official told Defense Daily. Kirk Woellert, […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said July 21 that it has fired the surface-launched variant of its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a moving ship for the first time. During the […]

The U.S. Navy, which aims to field a 308-ship fleet in the post-2020 period, will begin to fall well short of that goal in the early 2030s, according to the latest […]

The Navy on Tuesday awarded the Bell Helicopter [TXT]-Boeing [BA] joint program office a $545 million contract modification for MV-22 aircraft, according to a Defense Department statement. The modification is […]

The Navy has begun conducting “shock” tests for its new Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to ensure they can survive underwater explosions. On July 16, the USS Jackson (LCS-6), an Independence-class […]

Building on an acquisition it made in late winter, Textron [TXT] earlier this month launched a new operating business focused on providing tactical airborne training services to the Navy and […]

A soon-to-be-completed study on the U.S. Navy’s force structure could call for an increase in the service’s requirement for 48 Virginia-class fast-attack submarines, two Navy officials said July 14. The […]