Navy/USMC

By George Lobsenz Amid discussions in Congress and at the Pentagon on expanding the Navy’s nuclear-powered fleet, Idaho officials Thursday announced an agreement with the Energy Department’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion […]

By Geoff Fein The next year will be a busy time for the Navy’s P-8 Poseidon program as it prepares for first flight of its developmental test aircraft in FY […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps could be cleared to buy a batch of short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variants of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in early July, after a successful first […]

By Geoff Fein and Emelie Rutherford In a letter to John Young, the Pentagon’s top weapon’s buyer, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), raised his concerns that the DDG-1000 has the potential […]

By Dave Ahearn The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign- […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Kaman Aerospace Corp. [KAMN] said they recently demonstrated for the Army and Marine Corps that it’s feasible to transport supplies to ground troops by unmanned helicopter. […]

By Geoff Fein KaZak Composites, Inc., has developed a sonobuoy that can be deployed from a Navy P-3C aircraft from an altitude of 30,000 feet and from a distance of […]

Boeing [BA] delivered the first fleet EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack (AEA) aircraft to the Navy’s Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129, Tuesday at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, Wash., […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the process of signing a contract with Massachusetts’s-based KaZak Composites Inc., for the company’s impact recovery post, a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s acquisition chief has questioned the accuracy of a Navy letter stating the life-cycle costs of the new DDG-1000 destroyer and older DDG-51 destroyer are similar […]