Navy/USMC

A key Navy officer said Thursday he is pushing for the sea service to continue buying F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters beyond fiscal year 2018. Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–The Navy is studying whether to expand deployment of Raytheon‘s [RTN] SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system to other ships, according to a service official. Navy Capt. Craig Bowden, program […]

Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) is equipping Marines with the new and improved Magnetic Intrusion Detector II used to detect vehicles and rifle-sized targets traveling within their electromagnetic fields, the […]

The Navy formally accepted delivery of its eighth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) during a ceremony Aug. 12 at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) shipyard in Marinette, Wis. The future USS […]

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program has completed tests to assess the vessel’s ability to withstand blasts and fire caused by weapons, the Navy said Aug. 11. The tests, which […]

The Navy on Thursday awarded Pratt & Whitney a $152 million contract modification for a variety of F-35 products, according to a Defense Department statement. The contract modification will procure […]

The U.S. Marine Corps has begun a three-year effort to repair all of its 147 aging CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopters, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) said Aug. 10. During […]

The U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Raytheon [RTN] together successfully test-fired three AIM-9X Block I Sidewinder missiles from an F-35A at airborne targets for the first time, the company said […]

The U.S. Marine Corps is on track to begin deploying its new Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II fighter overseas for the first time in early 2017 in the Western […]