Navy/USMC

Textron [TXT] hopes to begin full-rate production of the Marine Corps’ new landing-craft air cushion (LCAC) and begin testing the first ship-to-shore connector (SSC) before the end of the year. […]

The centerpiece of the new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers—the AN/SPY 6V Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) by Raytheon [RTN]—is on track to begin developmental testing this summer at […]

The first upgunned frigate version of the Littoral Combat Ship is slated to have an over-the-horizon missile, but the Navy’s director of surface warfare wants to demonstrate at least one […]

Establishing common baseline hardware and software architectures across the Navy’s surface fleet will be key in maintaining dominance of the world’s oceans over the next 30 years, said Rear Adm. […]

Britain’s BAE Systems on Tuesday said it is laying off more than 800 employees at its two ship repair organizations on the East Coast of the United States due to […]

The Marine Corps is seeking a commercially available handheld device suitable for tactical mobile communications that can be purchase in large quantities on relatively short notice. The request for information […]

Should the Navy decide to downselect to a single builder, Lockheed Martin [LMT] is confident its Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will emerge victorious against Austal’s Independence variant, a company […]

While Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Oshkosh [OSK] trade punches in federal court over the right to build the next-generation Humvee, incumbent manufacturer AM General has rebounded from its loss in […]

During a visit to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced that the new class of fleet replenishment oilers—up to now known as TAO(X)—would be named for civil […]

The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $286 million contract modification for non-recurring engineering and recurring support to produce and configure the first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye for Japan, the […]