Navy/USMC

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 […]

Congress’ government watchdog office and the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) are at odds over how to structure the jet’s Block 4 modernization effort. In a March 23 hearing, […]

F-35 software instability in both blocks 3i and 3f causes certain aircraft sensors, including the radar, to shut down for minutes at a time before fully recovering, according to a […]

The U.S. Navy awarded the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) an $84.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) cost-plus-fee contract for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, and cyberspace technology research, the Defense Department […]

If the Navy is permitted to fund its ballistic missile submarine through a special fund, lawmakers should consider a similar mechanism for modernizing the Air Force’s legs of the nuclear […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday denied General Dynamics’ [GD] protest of the Marine Corps’ contract award to SAIC [SAIC] for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV). General Dynamics challenged, […]

The Marine Corps Systems Command is reforming cyber acquisition by working with the Marine Corps Cyber Task Force to enhance oversight and governance and use a new streamlined processes to […]

The Air Force’s goal of declaring initial operational capability (IOC) for its F-35A on Aug. 1 is at risk due to issues with the latest version of its Automated Logistics […]

The Navy is approaching a Gate 4/5 review for its new carrier-based drone, during which the service will define its requirements in advance of the release of a request for […]

The Navy is in the midst of standing up its acquisition “speed lane,” called the Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said March 10. Based […]