Navy/USMC

The Defense Department “radically” changed and improved how it designs, tests and delivers F-35 software increments, going from a rate of one increment every 30 days to every three days, […]

The head of the military’s Cyber Command yesterday disclosed that the Defense Department is in the process of creating and training its core set of teams that would operate in […]

The Navy is about a month away from releasing its request for proposals (RFP) for the aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance and strike, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the […]

Three Navy aviators were killed yesterday when an E/A-6B Prowler based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash, crashed. The aircraft assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129 went down […]

Despite being on the right path, the F-35’s affordability, or the ability to acquire aircraft in quantity and to sustain them over the life cycle, is of paramount concern, the […]

The British Royal Navy is exploring the possibility of outfitting its newest class of destroyers with a ballistic missile defense capability. The Defence Ministry said this week it wants to […]

Slowing the production of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters because of the automatic government budget cuts that took effect last week could cause the price of its engines to rise and […]

Though the Defense Department identified the cause of an engine blade crack on an F-35A that lead to a fleet-wide grounding, the long-term durability of the F135 engine is unknown, […]

Textron– [TXT] subsidiary Bell Helicopter qualified BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System (APKWS) for use on its 407GT helicopter after completing guided shots, according to a BAE statement. A […]

The Navy has released more than $1.3 billion in funding for the construction of four Littoral Combat Ships, two each to prime contractors Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Austal USA. The […]