Navy/USMC

Faulty bolts have been found on a new Navy amphibious transport dock ship and replacing the hardware has forced a six-week delay in the delivery of the San Antonio-class (LPD-17) […]

PATUXENT RIVER, Md.–The Navy and Marine Corps plan to extend the deployment of the cargo-ferrying unmanned K-MAX helicopters in Afghanistan by another six months and possibly longer, Naval Air Systems […]

General Dynamics [GD] yesterday said it has completed its acquisition of the naval ship repair company Earl Industries, expanding its capabilities in the ship repair market. Terms of the deal, […]

PATUXENT RIVER, Md.–The Navy’s senior executive officer for unmanned aviation said this week that the planned timeframe for basing a UAV strike platform on an aircraft carrier was “pretty ambitious,” […]

A Lockheed Martin [LMT]-Raytheon [RTN] team demonstrated its potential electronic attack solution for the Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP), according to a Lockheed Martin statement. The demonstration took […]

As the Navy forges ahead on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, it will need to figure out how to balance the operational availability of the vessels with the maintenance […]

The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) yesterday added $130 million to President Barack Obama’s budget for industrial-base initiatives while reducing his proposed level of Pentagon funding by $100 million. During yesterday’s […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT], Raytheon [RTN] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said they submitted proposals to the Navy to design, build, integrate and test the new Air and Missile Defense Radar […]

PATUXENT RIVER, Md.–A mechanical airframe failure was responsible for the June crash in Maryland of a Navy unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrator for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program, the service’s […]

Serco Inc., the North American arm of Serco Group plc (SRP), yesterday said it was awarded a potential $73 million contract to support the Defense Department Joint Program Office with […]