Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded General Atomics a follow-on task order valued at $22 million for the completion of an Advanced Containment Launcher (ACL) […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s outgoing purchasing czar said analysis of the Navy’s future cruiser should begin "right away," and maintained the service’s previous plan to base the ship on […]

By Geoff Fein PASCAGOULA, Miss.–The Navy last week took delivery of the newest most advanced big deck amphibious ship, LHD-8, after running several months behind schedule and hundreds of millions […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s outgoing acquisition czar said he expects most of the DDG-1000 and DDG-51 destroyers the Navy plans to buy under a new setup will have fixed-price […]

The Navy on Friday canceled Boeing‘s [BA] Harpoon Block III weapon system Program due to cost overruns and a delay in the testing schedule, the service said. The Block III, […]

By Ann Roosevelt The U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (JFCOM) Joint Center for Operational Analysis (JCOA) produces lessons learned and recommendations for change to inform the joint force and combatant commanders […]

By Geoff Fein Just a few weeks after the Navy acknowledged it was looking at the impact of retuning to steam catapults on CVN-78, the service has reaffirmed its commitment […]

By Geoff Fein The next generation aircraft launch system being designed for CVN-78 is moving ahead, and despite some issues with cost and schedule, Navy officials believe the capability will […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has arrived at a plan that will shift construction of all three DDG-1000-class destroyers to General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW), while giving two […]

By Geoff Fein Earlier this month the Navy issued a sole source solicitation to Electronic Data Systems (EDS) [HPQ] for a Continuity of Services Contract (COSC) that will be used […]