Navy/USMC

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney battled over Pentagon spending and Navy shipbuilding last night during the final presidential debate before the Nov. 6 election. Obama mocked Romney, […]

Pentagon acquisition officials still need to work toward optimizing data rights requirements to ensure that developing open architecture (OA) systems save money but in a way that is also beneficial […]

Oshkosh Defense [OSK], producer of light, medium and heavy tactical and armored Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, this week celebrated the delivery of its 100,000th military vehicle. Oshkosh employees gathered […]

The Navy has awarded General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat a $459 million contract modification to continue providing design, engineering and logistics support on submarines. The option was exercised under a […]

The Army’s top acquisition official and a program executive officer (PEO) must provide the DoD’s chief tester with a test plan by January for the Harris [HRS] Falcon III AN/PRC-117G […]

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney backs the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, but increasing the annual build-rate of the vessels designed for close-to-shore operations is not part of his overall […]

The Navy has begun evaluating the second prototype electromagnetic (EM) railgun being developed by General Atomics and designed to capitalize on the potential of using electricity to launch projectiles instead […]

Advisers to President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sparred yesterday over the candidates’ approaches to defense spending and Navy shipbuilding. Romney’s plans to increase naval shipbuilding from nine […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC], the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center said they have successfully completed a series of flights moving DARPA’s Autonomous High-Altitude Refueling […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently awarded contracts for pursuing new technologies designed to enhance the autonomy of unmanned aerial cargo systems. ONR said last week it’s initially providing […]