Navy/USMC

A top Marine Corps official on Tuesday said the service is embarking on an aggressive modernization path bolstered by a recent budget increase. Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, chief of the […]

The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Lightning II program has awarded prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1.4 billion contract to sustain the stealthy fighter jet for another year, the Pentagon […]

Austal USA delivered the future Littoral Combat Ship USS Tulsa (LCS-16) to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala., on Monday. Austal USA builds […]

The next Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), is 75 percent structurally complete, shipbuilding Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] said on Monday. HII said this […]

A new Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report finds the Navy’s Strategic Theater Sealift program office did not reach required performance capabilities for the Expeditionary Fast […]

Following a record-short three months of operational testing, the Marine Corps is tabulating the performance of two Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) and plans to choose one for its next swimming […]

The House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness addressed several issues raised by reviews of Navy destroyer collisions in the Pacific last summer in its mark of the FY ’19 National […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) seapower and projection forces panel conducted a markup of its portion of the FY ’19 National Defense Authorization Act Thursday, adding several ships to […]

Defense Secretary James Mattis supports further increases to the Pentagon’s shipbuilding budget because the military is planning to adopt a maritime-based strategy to defend the United States homeland, he told […]

The House Armed Services subcommittee on seapower’s mark of the FY ’19 defense authorization bill authorizes three Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) and would push the Navy to procure the technical […]