Navy/USMC

Appropriators are pushing the Navy to award an Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract for the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter aircraft while boosting funding close to $1 billion, according to […]

The Navy has identified five areas that require design study to add capabilities to the new FF(X) frigate program, according to a budget document released by the House Appropriations Committee […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]