Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The Navy has taken over the lead on the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) following the Army’s decision to terminate the program. BAE Systems last week […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy yesterday said it is encouraged by the results of a recent inspection for cracks on Boeing [BA] F/A-18 Hornets’ outer wing panels, and expects there […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy this week signed a $65 million production contract with Honeywell [HON] for 90 of its T-Hawk micro air vehicle systems that will be used by […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy and Raytheon [RTN] last month simulated a submarine launch of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), not from a torpedo or vertical launch tube, but from […]

By Geoff Fein Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) is expected to begin critical design review (CDR) early next year, a company official said. The company has been […]

By Ann Roosevelt This week a Unity of Effort Seminar–Interagency and Military Planning–is under way in McLean, Va., part of a year long series of events in the Army’s Title […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy on Monday issued its long awaited revised request for proposal (RFP) for two Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to be procured in FY ’09. […]

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] Maritime Systems and Sensors (MS2) was the only company capable of performing the requirement of three Navy solicitations for Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense work […]

By Emelie Rutherford Sen. Ted Stevens’ departure from the post as Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) ranking member has generated uncertainly about the fate of initiatives including national missile defense […]

By Geoff Fein In the ongoing debate over whether to keep DDG-1000 alive beyond the first two ships or to build more of the venerable Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, Raytheon [RTN] […]