Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The BAE Systems–Lockheed Martin [LMT] Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) team recorded a failure of the 155mm round’s rocket motor igniter retainer during a test earlier […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said yesterday they hope to seriously curtail the use of cost-plus contracts through the extensive defense-acquisition- reform bill […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and industry develop new ship self defense systems to counter advances in anti-ship cruise missiles, it’s up to PMA-208 to find ways to represent […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps is moving forward with plans for the once-troubled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), which recently overcame a hurdle with the Pentagon’s Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) […]

Betting On Super Bowl Rivals The Missile Defense Budget; Pornography Spending Equals Recent NASA Budgets The United States fails to provide adequate funding for major space, missile defense and weapons […]

Defense procurement programs face huge budget cuts, not only in fiscal 2010 but even more in 2011 and the out years, with an immense array of programs in each of […]

A Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missile was launched from a submarine submerged in the Pacific Ocean, the USS Alabama (SSBN 731), making the 126 successful test flight since 1989, […]

By Geoff Fein For the Navy to deploy both a MH-60 R and S squadron aboard the USS John Stennis (CVN-74), officials had to demonstrate the helos could interoperate with […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s decision to go with Rockwell Collins‘ [COL] Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) will not only make the service’s CH-53K common with Army helicopters, but it […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is getting closer to working out the kinks in the MH-60S’ Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) system and is preparing to take the system back into […]