Navy/USMC

The Navy yesterday awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding Newport News a $5.1 billion contract to build the next-generation aircraft carrier CVN- 78, the Gerald R. Ford. Under this contract, Northrop […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) included funds yesterday in its marked-up bill for a third DDG-1000 destroyer for the Navy in fiscal year 2009, ensuring the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congressional backers of Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] aerial refueling tanker bid decried news that the Pentagon is terminating the current KC-X solicitation, charging politics factored too much into […]

In Talks With Navy, Raytheon Suggests Making New Zumwalt Destroyers Missile Defense Ships Raytheon Co. [RTN] is disappointed that lawmakers in Congress may cut funding needed to develop the Kinetic […]

By Geoff Fein A Lockheed Martin [LMT] Canada industry team was awarded a $2 billion contract from the Canadian government to design and build the combat system for that nation’s […]

The Navy conducted the second test of Raytheon [RTN] Standard Missile-6 extended range anti-air warfare missile last week, the company reported. Just as in the first SM-6 test on June […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon ordered $752 million worth of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) from International Military and Government (IMG) yesterday, and tapped two other MRAP builders to […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s third report to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on efforts to incorporate open architecture (OA) into contracts and programs shows the Navy has made […]

By Calvin Biesecker SAIC [SAI] on Wednesday posted solid second quarter results led by strong organic growth and record sales and a modest increase in income from continuing operations, which […]

A recent Navy and Coast Guard experiment to demonstrate certain aspects of future sea-going sensor packages in the port security role was successful, an industry official whose firm supported the […]