Navy/USMC

The future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) finished its acceptance trials on Sept. 16, the Navy said on Friday. During the trials, the Navy’s Board of […]

Incentive payments for Lockheed Martin [LMT] in the new, possibly $6.6 billion, three-year sustainment contract to the company for its F-35 fighter are contingent upon the meeting of cost per […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Sept. 16 that it recently demonstrated the ability to link six F-35 Full Mission Simulators (FMS)–four at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, Calif., and […]

Naval Air Systems Command awarded Northrop Grumman’s Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC [NOC] a $41 million contract for 16 low rate initial production (LRIP) Lot One AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles […]

Boeing’s [BA] MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker test asset, called T1, conducted the first unmanned aerial refueling with a Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35C Joint Strike Fighter for the Navy on […]

A potentially $6.6 billion three-year sustainment contract award on Sept. 13 to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for its F-35 fighter is a stepping stone to a possible performance-based logistics (PBL) contract […]

The Defense Department awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $2.014 billion contract definition award on Sept. 13 to provide logistics support for domestic and international customers of the F-35 Joint Strike […]

The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) awarded the Honolulu, Hawaii-based WSM Pacific SIOP, A Joint Venture a $500 million architect-engineer design contract on Sept. 7 for Hawaii and Washington-based […]

The Navy’s 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59 was stood up on Sept. 9 to help test and integrate unmanned systems into the service, following previous ongoing efforts. The new task […]

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) this week said the Navy is creating a new unmanned task force to quicken the pace of integrating unmanned systems into the fleet. Speaking […]