Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford The outgoing head of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) emphasized during a visit this week to Washington his desire for ample numbers of submarines and surface ships […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is expected to order as soon as today thousands of a new off-road variety of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) for troops in […]

By Geoff Fein As personnel at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are finding that even in the early introduction of Open Architecture (OA) into the Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is trying to kill a relatively new and controversial requirement that future Navy surface combatants must be nuclear powered. Two House […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN] have each been awarded Navy contracts worth approximately $10 million for concept studies for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House and a Senate panel defied the White House yesterday and authorized adding money to the Pentagon’s policy bill for F-22 fighter jets and a second […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s effort to develop a carrier capable combat drone is providing the service an opportunity to explore the art of the possible, literally building the Unmanned […]

By Geoff Fein While Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the U.S. Navy continue to modernize the Aegis combat systems on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and the ballistic missile defense capability of other […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy pursues development of new aircraft launch and recovery systems for its next generation of carriers, the service is also developing a new information management […]

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a House oversight committee called yesterday for halting production of the V-22 Osprey after government auditors highlighted shortcomings with the Marine Corps’ tilt-rotor aircraft including […]