Navy/USMC

The Navy will pursue an incremental strategy for the Littoral Combat Ship’s (LCS) mine countermeasures mission package that will involve transitioning from the Remote Minehunting System to an unmanned surface […]

The Marine Corps is starting to ramp up to deploy the Microsoft [MSFT] Windows 10 (WIN 10) operating system to the full Corps by January 2017 to match a February […]

The Marine Corps’ newest amphibious assault ships are designed to support expeditionary operations for at least the next 40 years, during which the technology inside their hulls will rapidly become […]

The Navy on Thursday evening awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Austal for construction of the 25th and 26th Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The awards modify the each shipbuilder’s’ […]

The private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Company on Thursday said it has acquired American Scaffold in partnership with company management, adding to its portfolio of companies in the maritime […]

The Navy on Wednesday funded two of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers it procured in fiscal year 2016, with one ship for Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding and another for […]

The Navy has named General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat the prime contractor for the Ohio replacement submarine, while Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding will take a secondary role […]

The Defense Department in its 2015 Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) officially rang the death knell for Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Remote Minehunting System (RMS), a mine detecting semi-submersible that was originally […]

By choosing the Oshkosh [OSK] Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), the Army and Marine Corps stand to save $6 billion over the life of the program, which will replace portions […]

Over the past year, the Defense Department has been able to drive down procurement and operations and sustainment costs of the F-35 joint strike fighter, but a decision to extend […]