Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein Developing international partnerships and opening up dialogue among navies is becoming more important to combat everything from piracy to ballistic missile threats, according to the Chief of […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Defense Department and the Army last month co-sponsored a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) international conference to learn more about the future vehicle and to explore […]

By Emelie Rutherford Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] is on track to build all of the new, lighter mine-resistant vehicles the Pentagon wants by next April, and expects last Friday’s vehicle order […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy ordered 1,700 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) from Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] on July 31. The contracting award, worth $1.1 billion, come after the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House dealt a major blow to the waning effort to extend production of F-22s yesterday by stripping from the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations bill, by […]

By Geoff Fein Language added to the House-passed defense authorization bill would give the government the technical data rights for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) if either shipbuilder declined to […]

The Navy recently awarded General Atomics (GA) a not-to-exceed $32.7 million contract to develop a proof-of-concept Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) system for a full-scale demonstration with an initial funding increment […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN], $10 million each to perform concept studies for the Air and Missile Defense Radar […]

General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems (GD-AIS), was recently awarded a $10.2 million first-year contract of a multi-year award by the Navy to provide upgrades to the submarine weapons control […]

By Geoff Fein After acknowledging there will be delays in the delivery of LHA-6, Northrop Grumman [NOC] is working to determine the impact to the ship’s cost and construction schedule, […]