Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead has directed the establishment of a permanent Navy organization to undertake both the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and the QDR […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the process of preparing to release a request for proposal (RFP) in June for Increment II of its presidential helicopter, as the service […]

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday filed a protest of the Navy’s award of a $1.16 billion contract to Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) […]

The White House last week sent Sean Stackley’s name to the Senate for nomination as the Navy’s top weapons buyer. However it’s unknown when the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) […]

By Geoff Fein During his tenure as Navy Secretary, Donald Winter has made it a point to visit foreign shipyards when the opportunity presents itself. The visits have enabled Winter […]

In an ominous development, new pictures of an advanced Chinese long-range-missile-carrying submarine also show China is building a major base for its subs at Hainan Island, including underground tunnels. Those […]

By Geoff Fein The Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS), a small submersible capable of deploying Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from a submarine operated for the first time from one of […]

Boeing‘s [BA] ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA) logged a pair of service milestones as it surpassed 50,000 combat flight hours with Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEF) in Iraq and 1,000 shipboard recoveries […]

By Geoff Fein Reliability issues with the AQS-20 sonar’s cable winch system aboard the MH-60S Seahawk, have led the Navy to suspend the system’s operational evaluation (OPEVAL) while an independent […]

By Geoff Fein When the USS North Carolina (SSN-777) is commissioned Saturday, May 3, it will mark improvements in the way the newest attack submarines are built, enabling the Navy […]