Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein One-time presidential helicopter competitors Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Sikorsky [UTX] have teamed up for the Navy’s latest foray to replace the terminated VH-71, according to the two […]

By Geoff Fein Using their own internal research and development funds, Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] fired the first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) during a test at White Sands Missile […]

By Geoff Fein Operating the USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), a 23,000-ton ship with a crew of only 315 sailors is a challenge under any circumstance, but the work is made […]

By Geoff Fein While the Navy begins the arduous task of determining which Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) design is the best for the fleet, the service is working to get […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is crafting a program for labeling contractors as "preferred suppliers" as part of its push to lower costs during the sustainment of weapon systems, a […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is taking a more aggressive approach to making sure it can afford the fleet of the future as well as ensuring current platforms reach their […]

By Geoff Fein GoAhead Software, a player in the Navy’s Common Processing System (CPS), is taking what might be seen as an unusual step in making its SAFfire software completely […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] will soon begin the next system test phase for the Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system at the company’s antenna test facility. This newest series of tests […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s eighth quarterly report to Congress on open architecture (OA) outlines a number of efforts the service plans for 2010 including publishing a guidebook for requirements […]

During a post-maintenance check flight earlier this month, a Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) supported its first drug interdiction with the […]