Navy/USMC

The Navy awarded four lots of contracts totaling over $1.7 billion for repair, maintenance and modernization requirements work on non-nuclear surface vessels based or visiting the San Diego Navy port. […]

The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided-missile destroyer on November 30 from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII]. HII built […]

As of November, the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] $153 million total in contracts for full-rate production of Lots 10 and 11 of the AGM-88E2 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) […]

The Navy and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] conducted the first weapon drop of the StormBreaker bomb from an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, the company said Monday. During this test based at […]

Any Guam missile defense system would need the Navy’s SM-6 missile for its utility in hyperosnic missile defense, a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) official said last week. SM-6 is a […]

The U.S. Air Force is asking for defense companies’ input on whether they are able to build “next generation aerial targets” to mimic fifth generation potential adversary fighters, such as […]

The SSN(X), the Navy’s planned next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine, will feature many torpedoes in a focus on deeper blue water naval combat roles, an official said last week. The Navy […]

The House-passed version of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill is eyeing possible competition to help reduce sustainment costs for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. The House passed its […]

U.S. aerospace firms are suggesting that an upcoming 5G rollout by AT&T [T] and Verizon [VZ] could lead to harmful interference with military radar altimeters. Earlier this month, the wireless […]

The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] a $114 million undefinitized contract action on Nov. 19 for long-lead time material (LLTM) for the future America-class amphibious assault ship LPH-9. The […]