Navy/USMC

The Marine Corps has completed additional cost studies on its Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) program and slightly raised its cost estimate to about $5 million per vehicle. Lt. Gen. Kenneth […]

The suspension of F-35A flights continued into its third day Thursday after the Air Force extended the suspension from just Eglin AFB, Fla., to fleet-wide on Wednesday. The Air Force […]

A “new normal” will require Marines to reinforce embassies and quell small crises on a more frequent basis, and to do so the Marine Corps will need a heftier at-sea […]

Boeing’s [BA] top defense executive believes Congress will ultimately allow the Navy to buy about 12 EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft in fiscal 2015, a number consistent with what the […]

The Marine Corps will redesign the aluminum bulkheads on the F-35B to prevent cracking, which was discovered on one plane in February after nearly 10,000 hours of testing, Commandant of […]

Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos on Tuesday passionately defended the Amphibious Combat Vehicle’s (ACV) path forward, casting it as the safer, more maneuverable and cheaper alternative to its predecessor, the […]

The Air Force intends to resume flying F-35As Wednesday after temporarily suspending operations due to a fire, according to a service spokeswoman. An F-35A suffered a “significant fire” Monday in […]

The global market for naval vessels is expected to grow at an annualized rate of two percent during the next 10 years, with North America holding the largest share of […]

The Office of Naval Research has finished awarding contracts for its Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move (GBAD) laser weapon and has already begun demonstrations with surrogate parts, ONR program […]

The Navy has identified nine business units of large defense firms that have provided superior performance and best value in carrying out acquisition contracts, the service said Friday. The Navy […]