Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford An industry group is warning a program the Navy is developing for granting some contractors "preferred supplier" status could inappropriately exclude smaller companies from contract competitions. The […]

By Geoff Fein Last month’s award of the Navy’s Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) Tier II contract to Insitu took the company from being a provider of service contracts […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has awarded a $43.7 million contract to Insitu, the makers of ScanEagle, for the long-awaited Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS)/Tier II program over three […]

By Emelie Rutherford The overall size of the defense budget likely needs to be increased to modernize equipment, the heads of an independent panel that critiqued the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House, via a 308-114 vote, granted final congressional approval yesterday to the long-delayed war-funding bill, after lawmakers agreed to remove much of the domestic spending tacked on to […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key House panel approved a $523.9 billion Pentagon spending bill yesterday with funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine, a move that could bode […]

By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] have wrapped up the first of three planned government-sponsored Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) firings at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to […]

TASC, Inc., has implemented a new three-dimensional asset management system for the Navy that is based on passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and an inventory management system. The RFID Real […]

By Geoff Fein As the demand from both NASA and the Air Force for solid rocket motors declines, the cost to produce and maintain the Trident II D-5 submarine launched […]

By Emelie Rutherford A Senate budget-writing panel agreed yesterday to cut President Barack Obama’s proposed level of Pentagon funding, and a House committee could do the same thing next week. […]