Navy/USMC

The Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) is now projected to be ready by early 2029, Navy officials told lawmakers this week. The Navy says its highest priority program is […]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), said that U.S. adversaries may target the nation’s bases domestically and abroad with attack drones, hidden in […]

Navy officials on Tuesday told the Senate Appropriation’s defense subcommittee that SM-3s are being used quickly and that the administration is still considering building U.S. Navy ships outside the U.S. to […]

Without an increase in its budget, the Marine Corps’ highest ranking officer said the service will have to “buy less” Joint Light Tactical Vehicles going forward in the wake of […]

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill aimed at streamlining defense industrial base collaboration with Australia and the U.K. for the AUKUS submarine technology sharing agreement. Sens. Tim […]

Austal USA this month launched its first steel ship, the future USNS Billy Frank Jr. (T-ATS 11). T-ATS 11 is the first of five Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship ships […]

President Trump nominated Adm. Daryl Caudle to be the next Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) this month, after removing Adm. Lisa Franchetti about four months ago. According to a congressional […]

Honeywell [HON] and Near Earth Autonomy have completed the first flight test of their autonomous Leonardo AW139 helicopter offering for the Marine Corps’ Aerial Logistics Connector (ALC) program, the firms […]

The Navy plans to merge the programs for the Large and Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (LUSV and MUSV) into a single autonomous surface craft program while delays to the Orca […]

Facing a “China scenario”–an invasion of Taiwan–continuously mentioned by top DoD officials in recent years would require sheer system number that the U.S. may not have. For their part, U.S. […]