Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford The SSGN cruise-missile submarine has become the Navy’s "premiere" irregular-warfare (IW) platform, and may soon launch new unmanned water and air vehicles in the fight, a senior […]

By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) said he is "troubled" about reports the Navy has weighed granting more of the work on a potential new batch of DDG-51 destroyers […]

By Geoff Fein A major focus of the follow-on to the Trident (SSBN) submarines will need to be affordability, flexibility and underwater payload capacity, as well as taking lessons learned […]

ATK‘s [ATK] AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) wrapped up a Milestone C review and received approval for entry into Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), the company reported. Navy acquisition […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy must start research and development for the next ballistic missile submarine in fiscal year ’10 if the service hopes to bring the follow-on to the […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has issued its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) request for proposal (RFP) for construction of the Flight 0+ ships planned for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, […]

By Geoff Fein Stiletto, a high-speed, composite ship, successfully met all the programmatic objectives of her operational evaluation (OPEVAL), demonstrating how an innovative effort can be achieved in a very […]

By Emelie Rutherford The two main candidates battling for California’s 52nd congressional district seat are no strangers to Congress, the Pentagon, the Global War on Terror, and defense spending. The […]

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Freedom (LCS-1), the first of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)-class, has seen a 4 percent weight gain, but there has been no impact to […]

By Geoff Fein Although Congress cut $212 million from the Navy’s VH-71 presidential helicopter Increment II effort in the FY ’09 defense appropriations act, lawmakers still left $100 million to […]