Navy/USMC

Engine maker Rolls-Royce has finished about 90 percent of the work necessary for the Marine Corps to declare the F-35B battle ready on July 1, according to Vice President of […]

General Dynamics [GD] NASSCO is prepping the first purpose-built Afloat Forward Staging Base, the USNS Lewis B. Puller (MLP-3/ASFB-1), for delivery this week, a company official told Defense Daily. Delivery […]

The Navy on Friday awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] two contracts totaling nearly $4.3 billion for work on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), according to a Defense […]

The Navy is ramping up efforts to cut weight from its two Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) variants in advance of new sensors, weapons and armor coming onboard in fiscal year […]

The Navy on Thursday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] an advance acquisition contract worth nearly $920 million for long lead time, materials, parts and components for the manufacture and delivery of […]

The Navy has accepted the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-3) communications satellite following successful completion of on-orbit testing, according to prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT]. MUOS-3, launched Jan. 20, […]

Continued schedule delays to the Navy’s carrier-based drone program could have implications on the service’s vision for the future carrier air wing, including its next generation fighter, a key admiral  […]

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has a solution for the military’s budget woes. Instead of looking to cut funding from the services, the Pentagon should turn an eye to its own […]

Unmanned boats that can be air-dropped from a helicopter and a handheld system able to construct a virtual 3D model of vehicles damaged by roadside bombs were among the technologies […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on June 1 delivered the last of 37 ships sets of the Navy’s newest shipboard computing system, closing the low-rate initial production (LRIP) phase of the program. […]