Navy/USMC

The Navy launched yesterday the first ship of its new Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) class less than two years after the start of fabrication, according to a service statement. Designed […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] last week reported a third quarter profit on flat sales, although persistent problems in a series of ships it is building for the Navy resulted in […]

The Marine Corps is “assuming risk” now with equipment modernization and unavoidably will continue to do so during a decade-long period of fiscal austerity, Commandant Gen. James Amos said yesterday. […]

General Dynamics [GD] said it confirmed the ability of its Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) ballistic hull design to meet the Marine Corps’ current ACV mine-blast survivability requirements after recently conducted […]

A former Navy admiral and president of General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works has been selected to chair Austal USA’s board, the company said yesterday. John “Dugan” Shipway, who served […]

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert anticipates that the Navy’s reach will grow in the decade ahead as new capabilities make their way into the fleet and through the […]

The Navy said yesterday that Rear Adm. Joseph Horn has been selected to become the next program executive officer for integrated warfare systems at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). Horn […]

The Navy has successfully launched missiles and hit targets from an unmanned surface vessel as it seeks to transition the weaponizing of unmanned aerial vehicles to the sea, the service […]

In the largest missile defense flight test ever, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with members of all the services successfully conducted the largest, most complex missile defense flight test ever […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has been in discussions with various countries around the world to market its version of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) already in production for the U.S. Navy, […]