Navy/USMC

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Kaman Aerospace Corp. [KAMN] said they recently demonstrated for the Army and Marine Corps that it’s feasible to transport supplies to ground troops by unmanned helicopter. […]

By Geoff Fein KaZak Composites, Inc., has developed a sonobuoy that can be deployed from a Navy P-3C aircraft from an altitude of 30,000 feet and from a distance of […]

Boeing [BA] delivered the first fleet EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack (AEA) aircraft to the Navy’s Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129, Tuesday at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, Wash., […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the process of signing a contract with Massachusetts’s-based KaZak Composites Inc., for the company’s impact recovery post, a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s acquisition chief has questioned the accuracy of a Navy letter stating the life-cycle costs of the new DDG-1000 destroyer and older DDG-51 destroyer are similar […]

By Geoff Fein Acuity Technologies and Piasecki Aircraft Corp., are both in the midst of a phase two Navy small business innovation research (SBIR) effort to develop a small unmanned […]

By Geoff Fein Small businesses looking to tap into Navy programs need to focus their ideas on the service’s current concerns, otherwise they are unlikely to get an audience with […]

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday submitted its bid to build the next series of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) for the Navy, a company spokeswoman said. In March, the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is seeking industry’s help in finding cost-effective ways to fill a projected tactical aircraft gap next decade. Acquisition authorities within the Defense Department (DoD) recently […]

By Geoff Fein With the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) growing, the Pentagon is examining a number of issues, from the systems’ implications on tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) […]