Navy/USMC

Fiscal pressures could force the Navy to buy F-35 Joint Strike Fighters at a rate of anywhere between 12 and 20 jets per year starting in 2020, the commander of […]

BAE Systems has been awarded an $80 million contract to upgrade six Mk 45 guns on Navy destroyers to the newest configuration. The Mod 4 configuration swaps the Mk 45’s […]

General Dynamics [GD] landed a $29 million order for AN/USC-61 Digital Modular Radios equipped with a new waveform that will expand the Navy’s ability to communicate all over the globe. […]

The Navy has awarded DRS Technologies Inc. three contracts with a potential value of more than $170 million, the company said Monday. The company will provide hardware, assembly, integration and […]

The competition for the Navy’s next anti-ship missile, set to kick off in 2017, could be a match between Raytheon’s [RTN] Tomahawk Block IV missile and the Long Range Anti-Ship […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has decided to build eight production examples of its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) offering to ensure its new Camden, Ark., production line is humming ahead of […]

Raytheon [RTN] is contemplating expanding its Redstone Arsenal facility in Huntsville, Ala., to accommodate the Navy’s request for nearly doubling the company’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) production rate, according to a […]

The most expensive weapon ever devised, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has been declared ready for battle by the Marine Corps. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121), went operational Friday […]

The Obama administration’s nominee for the next Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Adm. John Richardson, said on Thursday that the service’s planned aircraft carrier gap in the Middle East this […]

The Navy on Wednesday awarded Leidos [LEI] a $4.3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program, according to a Defense Department statement. The contract has […]