Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval panel in Congress is weighing legislative language directing the Navy to open its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program to increased competition if […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy should build 11 new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to both replace the aging Ticonderoga-class ships and boost the number of surface combatants, according to an influential […]

Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System with flight test-proven terminal intercept capability recently received full certification from the Navy, the company reported yesterday. This newest upgrade […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy and Northrop Grumman [NOC] demonstrated earlier this month the ability to hand-off a Fire Scout vertical take-off unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV) from a shore-based ground […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy issued its fifth quarterly open architecture (OA) report to Congress, outlining efforts including the release of an acquisition management plan, a draft architecture description document […]

ManTech International [MANT] yesterday said it has acquired the small firm DDK Technology Group, Inc., bolstering its capabilities in cyber security and information technology support. Terms of the deal were […]

By Geoff Fein As part of the Aegis modernization effort on the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), Lockheed Martin [LMT] is incorporating CA’s [CA] Spectrum Network Fault Manager to monitor the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Plans are being made to send thousands of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) from Iraq to overseas-storage facilities and domestic bases because of the drawdown of […]

By Emelie Rutherford Two congressmen who help dictate funding for the Marine Corps’ developmental Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) said they have concerns about its design that could impact their support […]

By Geoff Fein Unmanned systems are an area the Navy should continue to invest in, from a technological point of view, as the service learns just what those platforms are […]