Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford A leading defense appropriator in Congress predicted yesterday that Pentagon spending will drop in the coming years, and that consideration of the next supplemental war-funding bill will […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy yesterday said it has ceased funding development of the Mission Reconfigurable Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (MRUUV) due to technical and engineering issues. The decision, made by […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is looking to demonstrate autonomous refueling of its planned Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS), according to a presolicitation notice published earlier this month. According to […]

By Geoff Fein While it might seem that advances in information technology require similar efforts to secure those systems, it is really more about policies and procedures than hardware or […]

By Marina Malenic Defense Department officials knew of the potential risk to U.S. troops from roadside bombs prior to the hostilities in Iraq, but the department did not begin purchasing […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is looking at ways to reverse the downward trend and bolster its acquisition workforce, to recapture much of the activity that has been outsourced over […]

By Geoff Fein Navy Secretary Donald Winter has signed off on an update to the service’s acquisition instructions, adding in the new gate review process as well as aligning them […]

By Ann Roosevelt U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) Dec. 4 released Joint Operating Environment 2008 (JOE 2008), a report that examines trends and contexts of the future operating environment and […]

Report: Kill European Missile Defense And Airborne Laser; Halt Procurement, Deployment Of Aegis, GMD, THAAD, Patriot; And End Streamlined Missile Defense Budget System The multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]

The first production VH-71 presidential replacement helicopter arrived last month at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Md., and will undergo two months of tests before systems installation work begins, […]