Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein Months after establishing an initiative that would apply to Major Defense Acquisition Program programs, Acquisition Category I programs, all pre-Major Automated Information System programs, and selected ACAT […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon yesterday placed $612 million worth of orders with General Dynamics [DG] and BAE Systems for 813 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPS), according to a […]

By Emelie Rutherford As questions swirl on Capitol Hill about whether the Navy will halt its nascent DDG-1000 destroyer program and build more of the older and cheaper DDG-51s, an […]

By Geoff Fein While the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has garnered much of the attention of lawmakers and defense analysts since cost overruns have plagued the program, the chief component […]

Israel is seeking to buy four Lockheed Martin [LMT] or General Dynamics [GD] Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) for $1.9 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said yesterday. Each ship […]

By Geoff Fein Over the course of the next month, the Navy will issue an unrestricted competitive solicitation for Systems Design Part 1 (SD1), with an option for SD2, for […]

By Geoff Fein Later this summer, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is planning on conducting a demonstration of a cargo transfer operation between multiple vessels, using a government designed […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy last week disbanded the office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Integrated Warfare Systems (DASN IWS) and created a new executive director position […]

By Emelie Rutherford Saying there is movement within the Navy to halt the DDG-1000 destroyer program and continue building DDG-51s, a shipbuilding panel chairman has called Navy officials to Capitol […]

DRS Technologies [DRS] has successfully completed full-power testing, as required by the Navy, of its power-dense Permanent Magnet Motor (PMM) and drive at the Navy’s Integrated Power System (IPS) Land-Based […]