Navy/USMC

Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully executed the critical design review (CDR) for the VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Replacement (PHR) program, according to a company statement. The joint Sikorsky/Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) […]

The U.S. Navy’s Naval Enterprise Networks (NEN) Program Management Office (PMW 205) released a third Request for Information (RFI) in preparation for the recompete of the Next Generation Enterprise Network […]

The USS Fort Worth, a Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-3) that experienced an “engineering problem” in January, sustained less damage than an initial assessment indicated, a U.S. Navy spokesman said […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is gearing up to conduct a swarming technology demonstration in which 30 small Coyote unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will be tube-launched within two minutes […]

NanoRacks, a company doing business on the International Space Station (ISS), has launched roughly six Defense Department payloads into space via ISS, a company official told Defense Daily. Kirk Woellert, […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said July 21 that it has fired the surface-launched variant of its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a moving ship for the first time. During the […]

The U.S. Navy, which aims to field a 308-ship fleet in the post-2020 period, will begin to fall well short of that goal in the early 2030s, according to the latest […]

The Navy on Tuesday awarded the Bell Helicopter [TXT]-Boeing [BA] joint program office a $545 million contract modification for MV-22 aircraft, according to a Defense Department statement. The modification is […]

The Navy has begun conducting “shock” tests for its new Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to ensure they can survive underwater explosions. On July 16, the USS Jackson (LCS-6), an Independence-class […]