Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCFF(X) Frigate Restricts Engineering To Single Digit Changes Over NSC, Containerize Extra Systems
Navy officials last week said the new FF(X) frigate, based on the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter (NSC) design, will have extremely constrained engineering changes and they plan to primarily […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Should Consolidate Command-And-Control Platforms For Unmanned Vessels, Official Says
The Navy has more command-and-control platforms than it needs and should limit these to ensure more constancy across its fleets, the officer in charge of technology and innovation at the […]
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Navy/USMCAnduril To Deliver More Than 600 Bolt-Ms For Marines’ OPF-L Loitering Munition Program
Anduril Industries has received its first production award for the Marine Corps’ Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) lightweight loitering munition program, receiving $23.9 million to deliver more than 600 of its […]
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Navy/USMCBattleship Solves The Weapons Choice DDG(X) Faced, Navy Official Says
The Navy was facing a choice between either fielding hypersonic weapons or keeping a planned naval gun on the DDG(X) future destroyer program until the Trump administration’s push to supersede […]
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Navy/USMCHead Of U.S. Fleet Forces Command Outlines Navy Need For Larger Missile Stable
The Navy needs a significantly larger stable of missiles, such as the more than $2 million unit cost Tomahawks and Standard Missiles (SMs) by RTX‘s [RTX] Raytheon in order to […]
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Navy/USMCSeasats Discloses $24 Million APFIT Award For Lightfish ASVs
Seasats on Thursday said it has received a $24 million award from the Defense Department to accelerate and scale production of the Lightfish autonomous surveillance vessel. The award was part […]
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Navy/USMCLead Landing Ship Medium Contract Award Planned For Mid-2026
A contract award to build the lead Landing Ship Medium (LSM) is expected in mid-2026, a senior Marine Corps official said Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Lee Meyer, the Marine Corps’ director […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Marks Progress On Flight IIA Destroyer Modernization Effort
Modernization of additional Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyers are underway following the completion of the first phase of the upgrades with the initial destroyer, the USS Pinckney (DDG-91), the program […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman Says It’s In Tune With Rapid Production Goal In DoD-L3Harris Agreement
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said that it is in tune with the rapid production goal that the Pentagon said motivated its agreement with L3Harris Technologies [LHX] to spin off the latter’s […]
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Navy/USMCCNO Seeks Defense Spending Over Four Percent Of GDP, Says Adding Nuclear Power To Battleship Would Delay It
The Navy’s top officer this week argued the U.S. annual defense budget should stick to a “new normal” above four percent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to maintain […]
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