Navy/USMC

The Navy’s first-of-a-kind laser deployed on a vessel sailing in the Persian Gulf has been declared operational and can be used by the crew to defend itself against potential threats, […]

The Navy awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $25.9 million contract for Tomahawk missile Composite Capsule Launching Systems (C/CLS), the company said on Wednesday. C/CLS production and delivery is planned to support […]

The V-22 Osprey has shown it can fire missiles in rockets forward, a capability that will allow the tilt-rotor aircraft to deploy faster without needing the protection of other armed […]

The Navy is beginning to focus on cybersecurity information sharing with the private sector but needs to increase it, Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, head of U.S. Navy Cyber Command, said […]

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted a Navy employee for attempting to unlawfully handover drawings of the Navy’s first ship of a new class of aircraft carriers, charges that […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered the first operational MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter to the Navy and the first ship-based flight tests are scheduled to begin this winter, the contractor […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] completed thermal vacuum testing on the fourth satellite scheduled to join the U.S. Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation, the company said on Monday. This fourth […]

The Navy should use the weapons it currently has for a more offensive posture and build on existing platforms for adding capabilities as it encounters fewer dollars for spending on […]

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert recently said that the service needs to focus on open, modular designs to make ships and systems more easily and rapidly upgradable to […]

The Government Accountability Office issued a report this week predicting that the cost of the Navy’s first of the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN-78) of aircraft carriers will further rise […]