Navy/USMC

A top Navy official said last week the service is confident they will field hypersonic weapons on both a Zumwalt-class destroyer and Virginia-class submarine later this decade despite time pressures. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 is to have no more than five cannibalizations per 1,000 hours and a maximum of 10 per […]

Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT], Lynchburg, Va., in the third quarter, which the nuclear contractor attributed during a Monday earnings report to growth throughout its naval, weapons cleanup and […]

A Navy office is conducting market research to find if industrial options exist for a future requirement of a 10-vessel class of expendable unmanned vehicles mother ships, called Attritable UxV […]

HII [HII] on Monday unveiled its newest medium-class unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), the REMUS 620.  The company underscored the new UUV is a second generation medium-class UUV with the same […]

The Navy is planning to begin a “scoping study” within a year to determine if the service needs to set up a fifth public shipyard to help maintain submarines in […]

Following a safety pause issued last month for the entire Navy jet trainer fleet due to an engine blade issue, the Navy announced on October 31 it resumed operations on […]

Navy officials this week said they are working on developing medium unmanned undersea vehicles (MUUVs) that can be be launched and recovered from submarine torpedo tubes, making submarines motherships. The […]

Navy officials this week confirmed the service will enact the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recommendations as it moves forward with the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) while noting […]

HII [HII] on Thursday reported lower third quarter earnings due to higher taxes and negative impacts from equity investments while sales were up mainly due to an acquisition a year […]