Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–Although contract award for construction of Block III of the Virginia class submarines is not expected until the end of the year, both General Dynamics […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and its industry partners prepare to begin building two Virginia-class submarines a year, Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) facility is instituting a number […]

By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–Delivery of CVN-77, the George H.W. Bush, will be approximately one month late, but Northrop Grumman [NOC] will have the ship ready for the January […]

By Emelie Rutherford While the Navy’s new destroyer-building proposal to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) calls for building eight more DDG-51s starting in fiscal year 2010, service […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s new plan to stop buying DDG-1000 destroyers in favor of older DDG-51 combattants results partly from a threat assessment showing a need for combating foes who […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House Appropriations defense subcommittee’s fiscal year 2009 defense bill includes no money for buying a Navy DDG-1000 destroyer, yet its chairman expressed doubts yesterday about the […]

By Geoff Fein Over the remaining nine days, Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the Navy will put the  Freedom (LCS-1) through her paces preparing the vessel for acceptance trials slated to […]

By Calvin Biesecker Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday reported solid increases in net income and sales although the higher earnings were driven by lower corporate and pension expenses as three of […]

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] USS Freedom (LCS-1), the first of a new breed of multi-mission Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), began builders trials Monday, nearly two years since she […]

By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] is currently working on a new offer to the Navy for the company’s Block IV Tomahawk cruise missile, though the new contract will likely not […]