Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] and L-3 [LLL] have been awarded contracts to provide replacement outer wing kits for the Navy’s P-3 Orion aircraft, 39 of which were grounded […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s nascent Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) effort reached a key milestone last week and is now able to track hundreds of thousands of vessels as part […]

By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday said it received a $61 million follow-on low rate production contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Unitary rockets. To date, more […]

ATK [ATK] Tuesday said that it has been awarded a $97 million contract for the design, development, integration, and test of the Multi-Stage Supersonic Target (MSST) by the Naval Air […]

Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] new Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System came to life last month–on schedule and as planned–aboard the Navy’s guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), the company reported. […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congress is poised to tackle the fiscal year 2009 defense spending bill when it resumes its work next week, with the House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) markup expected […]

By Geoff Fein Fredericksburg, Va.-based SimVentions is the driving force behind a plan to develop a technology center bringing together small companies and universities to collaborate on defense contracts, according […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy today will make its first-ever deployment of an Atlantic Fleet-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) capable destroyer, as the USS Ramage (DDG-61) heads to the Mediterranean […]

By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), a former three-star Navy admiral, said he hopes the service’s recent decision to seek one more DDG-1000 destroyer next year will give him […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) came through its first round of acceptance trials, receiving fewer trial cards than many first of class surface combatants get […]