Navy/USMC

The Navy is planning to conduct a hypersonic missile test launch off the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) by December 2025, an official said recently. “So timeline-wise…we’re supposed to do a test […]

The Navy in January agreed to support the Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC) in the storage and maintenance of optionally manned and unmanned service vessels (USVs), giving the […]

A Navy official this week confirmed the service has addressed reliability issues in the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) that were tied to vehicle design issues identified in the latest […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected teams led by General Atomics and Boeing’s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences to develop designs for the Liberty Lifter Seaplane full-scale demonstrator, the […]

The Navy issued a notice on Jan. 31 announcing a three-day long industry day focused on opportunities in unmanned surface and undersea vessels (USVs and UUVs, respectively), in accordance with […]

A Navy official this week outlined the submarine community’s challenges in needing to hire over 100,000 new workers over the next decade to maintain and improve shipbuilding and sustainment. “In […]

The Program Executive officer for Strategic Submarines this week said improvements in metallic additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, could lead to upward of an 80 percent reduction in the […]

Textron [TXT] won the competition on Jan. 25 to produce new T-54A Multi-Engine Training System (METS) aircraft to replace the aging Beech Aircraft T-44C Pegasus training aircraft. The older fleet […]

North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under […]

The Navy plans to hold a virtual industry day on Feb. 23 as it seeks to use contractor owned,  contractor operated (COCO) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and […]