Navy/USMC

The U.S. Navy on May 1 awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $327 million fixed-price-incentive (firm target) contract modification option to produce the first three low-rate initial production (LRIP) AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile […]

The first Lockheed Martin [LMT] short-takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B assembled outside the United States rolled out of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Italy on May […]

The U.S. Navy is planning to delay a detail design and construction (DD&C) contract for the Future Frigate until 2020 in order to explore incorporating new capabilities and enhanced survivability […]

The fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill could help move laser weapons to the battlefield after decades of development, according to a key lawmaker. The recently unveiled legislation contains $16.7 […]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – For two weeks in April, the 17 miles of undeveloped beachfront the Marine Corps maintains here became a “sandbox” in which weapon makers, operators and engineers […]

The leaders of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces both support the U.S. Navy’s assessment of increasing the fleet to 355 ships but recognize a decades-long […]

Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which relies on the military services to provide much of its enabling technologies and platforms, has begun blazing trails to new technologies and sharing that knowledge […]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.  – Once a remote-controlled assault amphibious vehicle trundled ashore here, it stopped and released from its hold a ground robot that continued its way across the wide […]

BWX Technologies [BWXT] said last week that the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program awarded the company’s Nuclear Fuel Services subsidiary $141.7 million in first quarter contract options for nuclear submarine […]

A Navy proposal to speed up the purchase of three Virginia-class attack submarines is a welcome step but would make only a modest dent in the military’s shortfall of those […]