Navy/USMC

Despite a stated mission need for eight new high-endurance cutters, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) FY ’13 budget request excludes funding for the final two National Security Cutters (NSC). […]

Boeing’s [BA] A-160T unmanned helicopter will not be making its way to Afghanistan to participate in a program designed under an urgent requirement to ferry supplies to Marines in remote […]

As Pentagon leaders defended their budget that ignores a potential half trillion dollar cut in spending reductions, a key senator argued the administration’s fiscal year 2013 proposal renders those cuts moot. […]

The Navy plans to curtail production of Boeing’s [BA] P-8A Poseidon by 10 planes over the next five fiscal years in an effort to save money as the Pentagon enters […]

In support of administration priorities, the fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is $7.7 billion, down from $8.4 billion in FY ’12, with funding reductions […]

The Pentagon unveiled yesterday its fiscal year 2013 budget proposal–which includes a restructuring of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program–giving lawmakers details on proposed weapons changes they will challenge starting today. […]

The Pentagon’s funding request for Navy shipbuilding for fiscal 2013 released yesterday is down by more than $1 billion from the current spending year, but did not reflect the plan […]

The Navy approved Raytheon’s [RTN] Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 on Jan. 19 to proceed to Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP), according to a service spokeswoman. In addition to being […]

A Northrop Grumman [NOC] executive said the company plans to propose a larger variant of the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter in the Navy-Marine Corps program for providing a supply lift […]

A branch head in the Navy’s Expeditionary Warfare Division wants to make it easier for the military to buy small unmanned systems to keep pace with emerging technologies and warfighter […]