Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps is looking for solutions to maintaining network connectivity in theater as well as ways to rapidly procure information technology, according to a top Marine […]

The Navy yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a modification to its previously awarded Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contract for efforts necessary to preserve production capability at its industry team shipyard […]

By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) said in an interview last week that Navy shipbuilding could benefit from anticipated cuts to defense programs within the Pentagon’s lean defense budget. […]

By Geoff Fein Boeing [BA] and the Navy are working closely to determine the make up of a potential multi-year contract for more F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, according to a company […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps’ top equipment buyer warned last week that as the defense budget shrinks there will be a collision in his service between buying new copies […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and Congress discuss the potential for moving defense contractors to fixed price contracts, all sides need to really examine the risks associated with programs […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] gave Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] a $90 million contract to provide solid rocket propulsion systems for the three stages of the Navy Trident II D-5 fleet […]

By Geoff Fein With attention focused on the future of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] presidential helicopter effort, amid rising costs and a Nunn-McCurdy review, the company is nearing completion of the […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy and the shipbuilding industry need to get into serial production that could also include moving to common hulls forms to keep production costs down and […]

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval panel in Congress said he wants officials working on the over-budget VH-71 presidential helicopter replacement program to justify its continuation on Capitol […]