Navy/USMC

The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1.5 billion contract to provide digital cockpits and integrated mission systems and sensors for the MH-60 Sikorsky-built helicopters. The Navy issued the […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is planning to test an airborne sensor designed to detect small boats this summer. ONR envisions placing the Multi-Mode Sensor Seeker (MMSS) on the […]

Construction began on the final of three destroyers in the Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000) of ships last week following the Navy’s certification that it was ready for production. Chief of Naval Operations […]

The third vessel in the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is moving closer to delivery to the Navy following completion this week of the second round of builder’s trials, the […]

ReconRobotics, a developer and provider of micro-robotics systems used by the Army and Marine Corps and law enforcement agencies, has acquired the systems engineering firm Xollai, LLC, boosting its capabilities […]

The Navy will focus on stabilizing the construction and cost on the first aircraft carrier in the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN-78) before exploring the possibility of a partial block […]

Republicans are questioning the Navy’s alternative-energy efforts as the service cuts back in areas including shipbuilding during austere fiscal times. House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Readiness subcommittee Chairman Randy Forbes […]

The Navy and Northrop Grumman [NOC] reached an agreement on providing new computers as part of an upgrade to the avionics aboard the Marine Corps’ Super Huey and Cobra helicopters, […]

The main challenges facing Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] in the next few years include continuing to retire risk on several amphibious transport and assault ships along with managing the transition […]

The Navy recently opened a new lab for experimenting with autonomous systems to see how they will react in adverse environments like the desert, along beach shores or even in […]