Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The Navy has no plans to terminate the Maritime Preposition Force Future (MPF(F)) program, a key component of the service’s sea base concept, a Navy official said. […]

By Geoff Fein After facing a bevy of negative survey results for the first two LPD-17-class ships, the Navy appears to be headed in the right direction, moving away from […]

By Calvin Biesecker Through the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2008 United States Government homeland security forces have reported thwarting 62 events involving the use of semi-submersible craft to […]

By Emelie Rutherford As the Navy struggles with industry proposals for building the next batch of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), a key lawmaker said late last week he was not […]

By Geoff Fein Between the ongoing debate over whether to build more DDG-1000s, beyond the two under contract, or build more DDG-51s, and the recent installation of the open architecture […]

By Geoff Fein One month after a Navy inspection team recommended the service go forward with delivery of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Freedom (LCS-1), the Navy yesterday was handed the "keys" […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate’s Wednesday night passage of a sparsely amended defense authorization bill kicked into high gear House-Senate negotiations over differences between each chamber’s version of the legislation […]

Navy and Air Force Global Hawk-based unmanned aircraft system (UAS) program officials have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to streamline their joint acquisition processes, according to the Navy. The […]

By Geoff Fein While DDG-1000 can carry and shoot off the Standard Missile-2 (SM), it can’t, as currently configured, communicate with the SM once it is fired, according to a […]

By Geoff Fein In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the Navy flew one of its two Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) platforms to take pictures of damaged areas and […]