Navy/USMC

The Defense Department and engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Wednesday signed a $508 million contract modification for the sixth lot of F135 propulsion systems for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, […]

Continued sequestration and spending bills based on previous year levels could halve the amount of money required in fiscal 2014 to ramp up toward production of the first ship in […]

Army and Navy acquisition officials said procurement of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle could be delayed a year or more because of sequestration, primarily in how it affects the program’s […]

The Marine Corps is still looking at buying 5,500 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles even though sequestration cuts are driving the service to lower its expected force structure, a program official […]

Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program officials said the government shutdown earlier this month and the continuing resolution that funds the government through Jan. 15 are complicating an otherwise simple […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Tuesday formally protested the Navy’s decision earlier this month to award the contract for the new Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) to Raytheon [RTN]. Lockheed Martin […]

Decisions that had been expected this month on protests over two major Navy contract awards could be delayed by more than two weeks because of the government shutdown that prompted […]

As the Pentagon works to complete its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) due to Congress is February, military leaders may inadvertently end up answering a fundamental question: can the Defense Department […]

The Pentagon has said it intends to award a sole-source contract to Raytheon [RTN] for the production of up to 216 of the latest version of the Standard Missile-3 to […]

BAE Systems yesterday said by the end of June 2014, doors will be shuttered at its Sealy, Texas, facility that has been a tactical vehicle production site since 1990. “The […]