Navy/USMC

By Ann Roosevelt The capstone future study program Unified Quest 09 (UQ09) examining the concepts and capabilities required for strategic, joint and tactical challenges the U.S. military will face 2018-2025 […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is looking to open up competition on its long running Acoustic Rapid Commercial-off-the-shelf Insertion (ARCI) program and intends to release a request for proposal (RFP) […]

By Geoff Fein The need to move the Navy toward open architecture systems (OA) is an imperative, as the service faces the challenges of the increasing cost to build ships, […]

By Calvin Biesecker Raytheon [RTN] on Friday said it has acquired the rights to the technology and name of the KillerBee unmanned aircraft system from Northrop Grumman [NOC], allowing it […]

The Navy Friday awarded General Dynamics [GD]-Bath Iron Works a fixed price contract to construct one Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)-named Coronado and designated LCS-4, according to the Navy. […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s top admiral said last Friday he worries about the fragility of the shipbuilding industry and called for the service to enhance relations with it to […]

The Navy yesterday issued a temporary grounding bulletin on six Marine Corps UH-1Y and one AH-1Z helicopters until the aircraft have been inspected for potential faulty components in each aircraft’s […]

By Ann Roosevelt A single training capability that can be distributed from shooters to the president is the goal of the "All things Missile" initiative from U.S. Joint Forces Command […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps expects to deploy the MV-22 Osprey to Afghanistan by year’s end, and for the nascent tilt-rotor aircraft to remain in the war-torn country for […]

By Geoff Fein CHARLESTON, S.C.–It might be time for the Navy to reexamine decades old acquisition legislation and policies to see if they continue to be valid today, the Chief […]