Navy/USMC

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter has successfully transmitted sensor data to the cockpit display of the MH-60 helicopter, the company said yesterday. The demonstration enhances the speed […]

The first commander of the U.K. Joint Forces Command has taken up the job: Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach took over Dec. 1. Peach will be responsible for commanding […]

The Navy has tested a new bomb casing material it says increases the explosive force and lethality on enemy targets, the Office of Naval Research said yesterday. ONR said the […]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned yesterday if the Pentagon does not force Lockheed Martin [LMT] to pay for a greater portion of cost overruns with the next F-35 Joint Strike […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has signed a contract to purchase 450,000 gallons of drop-in biofuel, making the largest purchase of the energy source in the history of the […]

The five unions that make up the workforce at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding division have signed off on an extension to the collective bargaining agreement. HII said last […]

The General Electric [GE]-Rolls-Royce partnership developing the second F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine said Friday they will abandon the project at the end of the year. “The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter […]

Under the threat of a budget sequestration and a push for general deficit reduction, the Defense Department is entering a period of a defense build down that will have a […]

Israel’s Elbit Systems [ESLT] yesterday said it has acquired General Dynamics’ [GD] interest in a joint venture between the two companies aimed at marketing unmanned aircraft systems in the United […]

With funding scarce and no full-up solution currently available, the Coast Guard plans to begin a two-phase test effort next year to examine the ability of small unmanned aircraft systems […]