Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCGAO Finds Navy’s XLUUVs Years Behind Schedule And Over Budget
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Wednesday found the Navy’s Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) program is at least three years late and 64 percent more expensive […]
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Air ForceIf Chosen, XA100 or Derivative Engine Would Require Separate Development for F-35B
While General Electric‘s [GE] proposed XA100 Tri-Variant Adaptive (TVA) for the F-35 has a degree of commonality with the company’s XA100 design for the U.S. Air Force F-35A, adapting the […]
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PentagonAir-to-Air Missiles and Energetics for Munitions Two Possible Areas for Increasing Capacity
Ukraine’s demands for weapons since Russia’s Feb. 24 assault may point to the need for the United States and its allies to invest in diverse production lines and ramping up […]
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Air ForceDoD Inspector General to Begin Audit of F-35 Assets in DPAS
The Pentagon Inspector General (IG) said last week that it plans to begin an audit of how the program for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 has maintained a real-time inventory […]
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Navy/USMCONR Tests Unmanned Technologies To Help Find Illicit Maritime Cargo
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the SCOUT initiative and recently conducted an experiment to figure out how to better detect illicit maritime cargo and drug-running using unmanned […]
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PentagonInsight into Identities of Lower Level Suppliers Issue for DoD
The Pentagon’s pause in its acceptance of new Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighters for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps points to a larger problem–the apparent lack of […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Authorizes ACVs To Resume Waterborne Operations After Safety Pause
The Marine Corps announced last Thursday it has authorized Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) to resume waterborne operations, after the force implemented a safety pause following a training incident in July. […]
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Navy/USMCHII Delivers Three New REMUS 100 UUVs To U.K.
HII this week said it delivered three new REMUS 100 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to the U.K. Royal Navy earlier this year. The new UUVs come after the U.K. Ministry […]
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Navy/USMCNavy And Raytheon Test StormBreaker SDM II On F-35B, Moves To Next Phase
The Navy and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] conducted two StormBreaker smart weapon guided test vehicle releases from an F-35B, allowing it to move to the next phase of weapon capability testing, […]
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Navy/USMCBerger: Marine’s LRUSVs “Primarily” For ISR, Unmanned For Logistics
The Commandant of the Marine Corps last week said the Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV) the service is developing will primarily act as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) […]
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