Navy/USMC

Adm. Timothy Keating, commander of the Pacific Command, urged Chinese leaders to improve relations with the United States, during a visit to China. Some military analysts, however, see China becoming […]

Perhaps the most daunting obstacle to the Navy getting the funds it needs is…the Navy. That is the view of Ronald O’Rourke, a preeminent defense analyst with the nonpartisan Congressional […]

By Geoff Fein In the coming weeks, both ATK [ATK] and Raytheon [RTN] will conduct test shots of their offerings for the Navy’s extended range munition (ERM) program, hoping to […]

By Geoff Fein Next month, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and the Commandant of the Coast Guard will discuss opportunities to share systems between the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship […]

By Geoff Fein The Naval Sea Systems Commend (NAVSEA) is looking at the potential to neck down the number of surface ship and amphibious ship hulls it builds to make […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] this week said it will combine its two shipbuilding sectors, Newport News and Ship Systems, into a single operating sector effective Jan. 28. In addition, the company […]

The Navy has begun a Systems Design and Development (SDD) effort to incorporate a data link into Boeing‘s [BA] Harpoon missile and Raytheon‘s [RTN] Joint Stand-Off Weapon making the two […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is looking at a variety of ways to cut down on the number of components it buys for surface ships to help lower the cost […]

The U.S. Navy and its Poseidon industry team marked the beginning of the P-8A production last month at Spirit AeroSystems‘ [SPR] Wichita, Kan., the Navy said. The P-8A is the […]

By Geoff Fein A Northrop Grumman [NOC]-funded effort has determined that the Navy would be best served by building a scalable and flexible cruiser that takes advantage of the DDG-1000 […]