Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford Called before Congress to explain delays and cost growth with Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Pentagon officials said yesterday the aircraft’s initial operational capability (IOC) […]

By Geoff Fein While the submarine program continues to rapidly insert commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies to modernize the fleet, officials are also making sure the schoolhouses not only have the latest […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is kicking off a shipbuilding industrial base study to review the capabilities and capacities at U.S. shipyards to better inform the service as it crafts […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] $14.9 million and Northrop Grumman [NOC] $17.4 million contracts for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system, a […]

By Geoff Fein The USS Freedom (LCS-1) returned to duty Wednesday after making repairs to one of two downed ship service diesel generators (SSDG) during a scheduled refueling stop in […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and the shipbuilding industry prepare to move toward producing two Virginia-class submarines per year, all eyes are looking ahead to the next-generation ballistic missile […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate confirm the nominations of six senior Pentagon officials last night after senators who blocked their final approval released their holds. The nominees, selected by President […]

By Geoff Fein As the Marine Corps continues to make a case for sea basing, service officials can point to the ongoing humanitarian assistance operations in Haiti as proof that […]

By Geoff Fein The General Dynamics [GD] variant of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) uses less fuel per hour during higher rates of speed than the Lockheed Martin [LMT] vessel, […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon "continues to explore" entering into a multi-year contract with Boeing [BA] for F/A-18 fighter jets, but was not able to make a decision by yesterday’s […]