Navy/USMC

By Jen DiMascio The House yesterday approved, 370 to 49, a bill to authorize Pentagon spending in the next fiscal year. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed […]

The Coast Guard expects to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) around Dec. 20 to procure Increment 2 Phase 1 of the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) to establish coastal […]

By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps could be facing dire consequences if Congress and the president are unable to reach an agreement on the supplemental defense bill, according to a […]

By Geoff Fein Three days after acknowledging a weld problem with its Virginia-class submarines, the Navy yesterday said the issue was not as serious as first thought and all three […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is continuing to find ways to shave dollars from the cost of building Virginia-class submarines, and is within $40 million of reaching its goal of […]

By Dave Ahearn A new paper urges killing the Air Force F-22 Raptor supersonic-superstealth fighter aircraft program, the Air Force-Marine Corps V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, the Navy DDG 1000 destroyer, […]

The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Anything But Iraq. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last week said that before the end of the congressional […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy, General Dynamics [GD] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] are inspecting welds on all Virginia-class submarines after discovering a weakness in the process associated with non-nuclear piping […]

By Jen DiMascio Lawmakers yesterday signed off on a conference report for a bill to authorize defense spending in fiscal year 2008 that includes language mandating the Navy’s next-generation cruisers […]

By Geoff Fein The drop in attacks on Marines in Iraq has in part led the service to re-examine the number of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles it will […]