Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The Navy is continuing to explore ways to trim costs and schedule for construction and delivery of Virginia-class submarines to enable the boats to increase deployments and […]

By Geoff Fein The Virginia-class submarine program is hitting two marks this month as the Pentagon approved Milestone III and authorization of full-rate production, and the lead ship is heading […]

By Calvin Biesecker Taking a unique and relatively inexpensive approach to perimeter security, Lockheed Martin [LMT] and its partner Intelleflex are developing a system based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) […]

By Emelie Rutherford A senior Pentagon advisor yesterday described the Pentagon’s healthcare, retirement, and personnel systems as ticking time bombs that must be overhauled to avoid a budget catastrophe. Retired […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System (CANES) is not only taking a number of existing legacy efforts, funneling them down into a single program, but whichever […]

By Geoff Fein Navy officials looked at a number of key factors before sending USS Freedom (LCS-1) off on her first mission, including ship materiel condition, sustainment, and crew training […]

By Geoff Fein Bids for the Navy’s Integrated Topside (InTop) task order 3 competition, exploring how to combine apertures and antennas on surface ships, were turned in last week, and […]

By Geoff Fein Addressing the technical challenges associated with the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) has led the service to implement design changes during the construction phase of LCS- 3 […]

By Geoff Fein The Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] effort to develop the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) for the Army and Navy had a successful second test flight of its […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to look at buying technologies to protect its networks, in particular those aboard ships, officials face a number of challenges ranging from the […]