Navy/USMC

A problem with the fueldraulics line behind the grounding of Marine Corps F-35Bs was likely caused by a quality issue in the manufacturing process that does not pose any design […]

Rear Adm. William Hilarides has been nominated as the next commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, the Pentagon said last week. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the nomination, which is […]

AeroVironment Inc. [AVAV] yesterday said it received a $12 million order for its Wasp ® AE small unmanned aircraft systems, initial spares packages, training, and one year of contractor logistics […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII], a builder of surface combatants and submarines, is pitching the Navy with the possibility of continuing production of LPD-17 amphibious transport dock ships as a platform […]

Naval shipbuilders lost some powerful congressional advocates in recent years. So House lawmakers are trying to boost support for ship companies and programs in Congress through steps like taking new […]

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said yesterday that a continuing resolution to govern spending for the rest of fiscal 2013 would be just daunting as across the board budget cuts that […]

The Navy will soon decide who will develop, design and build an actual full-scale, next-generation electromagnetic railgun prototype that will be evaluated by the Defense Department at a firing rate […]

Top Navy officers are once again defending the survivability of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) following the most recent report by the Pentagon’s testing office stating the ships would not […]

 A lawmaker backing plans to restore a nuclear submarine to the Navy’s budget said current legislation on Capitol Hill would allow the service to add the vessel through a somewhat-unorthodox […]

The Navy has instructed commands to begin identifying possible funding cuts in readiness as well as in other areas because Congress has not passed an appropriations bill for fiscal 2013,  […]