Navy/USMC

The Navy and Marine Corps are moving design considerations up in the acquisition process to help drive down both construction and total ownership costs, the director of amphibious warfare on […]

The Pentagon and military services are not adequately moving to shore up the strength of the industrial base that supplies solid rocket motors critical to the maintaining the country’s future […]

The first of four of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system arrived in Spain on Tuesday as part of NATO’s plan for […]

Despite the pledge of support from some lawmakers, the amphibious warfare community is trying to drive down the cost of building and maintaining its amphibious ship fleet in the hopes […]

Sikorsky Aircraft has conducted ground testing of the engines of the next variant of the heavy lift CH-53 helicopter for the Marine Corps, the company said Monday. The prototype CH-53K […]

Four defense think tanks agreed on many areas where the defense budget should be cut and reprioritized to keep within budgetary limitations while still preserving its most important capabilities. Unfortunately […]

Robert Work, the former undersecretary of the Navy who has headed up a progressive Washington think tank since he left the Pentagon last year, was nominated Friday to serve as […]

General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems will begin building three more engineering development models of its Aviation Command and Control Subsystem (AC2S) after passing a critical design review with the Marine […]

The Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition wrote to the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus Thursday to request funding for a 12th LPD amphibious transport dock that the coalition believes the Pentagon and […]

The Navy said this week that the first of the America-class (LHA-6) amphibious assault ships has completed acceptance trials without any major deficiencies. The future USS America underwent testing of […]