Navy/USMC

In the U.S. effort to protect allied commercial and military ships from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea region, the Navy 5th Fleet is seeking advances in laser technology and […]

The Navy on Monday awarded General Dynamics’ Electric Boat [GD] a $1.3 billion undefinitized contract modification for economic ordering quantity material in support of planned Block IV Virginia-class attack submarines […]

The Navy recently reported it successfully completed the first land-based demonstration of a way to reload MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems at sea. This test occurred at Naval Surface Warfare […]

The Senate appropriators’ fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill, voted out of committee Thursday, funds Navy shipbuilding at $37 billion, $3.4 billion over the Biden administration’s request with a focus […]

Leonardo DRS [DRS] in July won a contract potentially worth upwards of $417 million in U.S. and allied naval fleet electronic combat control and sonar systems equipment, the company announced […]

General Dynamics [GD] on Thursday announced the president of Electric Boat (EB) is retiring at the end of the year and will be succeeded by the senior vice president and […]

Just like the first quarter, HII [HII] on Thursday posted strong second quarter results driven by gains at its Mission Technologies segment with help from shipbuilding operations. Mission Technologies again […]

Rocket motor developer X-Bow Systems recently static fired its large Ballesta solid rocket motor using propellant it produced in-house, a key milestone demonstrating its advanced manufacturing process that it believes […]

The Navy accepted delivery of the USS Nantucket (LCS-27) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)  on July 29, the third to last version of the ship for the service. The service […]

The Navy last week announced it is establishing a new program office focused on the maritime industrial base and is assigning a top career civil servant from the office of […]