Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein After months of delays and disappointments, ATK [ATK] on Monday successfully fired its Ballistic Trajectory Extended Range Munition (BTERM), with one of the rounds hitting the target […]

By Emelie Rutherford President Bush was poised last night to sign the new defense authorization and appropriations bills, which together defer decisions to Bush’s successor on the future of programs […]

By Geoff Fein In the past 60 days, the Marine Corps has bought almost 2,000 unmanned air vehicles (UAV) from the Army and Air Force, in response to a warfighters’ […]

By Geoff Fein General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works acknowledged yesterday that it will be late in delivering its variant of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to the Navy as […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House passed yesterday the final compromise versions of fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations and authorization legislation–which call for continuing DDG-1000 destroyer production while potentially reviving the […]

By Geoff Fein Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead has signed out a memo establishing a new Navy Nuclear Weapon Senior Leaders Council to strengthen the ties among the […]

By Geoff Fein For the past several years, defense companies had been waiting for the Navy to open up the Aegis combat system modernization contract. In May, when the Navy […]

By Emelie Rutherford House and Senate appropriators reached an unofficial conference agreement on the fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations bill last Friday, and agreed to include partial procurement funding for […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has no plans to terminate the Maritime Preposition Force Future (MPF(F)) program, a key component of the service’s sea base concept, a Navy official said. […]

By Geoff Fein After facing a bevy of negative survey results for the first two LPD-17-class ships, the Navy appears to be headed in the right direction, moving away from […]