Navy/USMC

By Jen DiMascio The same week Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) called for an increase in the size of the Navy’s fleet, members of the House Shipbuilding Caucus mulled over ways […]

By Geoff Fein While the Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) continue to work on reliability issues with the Advanced Seal Delivery System (ASDS), the cost of future ASDS […]

The Marine Corps awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $52 million contract to develop Combat Convoy Simulators (CCS), the next generation of convoy simulators that will provide training for a variety […]

By Geoff Fein Two members of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) are asking the Navy to explore whether the service needs a medium heavy-lift helicopter to conduct a variety […]

By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps will have to go through an "expeditionary filter" to return to being a lighter, hard-hitting force, according to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. […]

The Navy has issued a sources sought notice for the Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Prototype Acceleration Project. The project consists of two spirals: the first is mainly focused on the […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is undertaking a number of measures to make sure it can keep its fleet of Northrop Grumman [NOC] EA-6B Prowler’s flying until at least 2012 […]

By Geoff Fein Delores Etter, the Navy’s acquisition chief, resigned Friday to return to teach at the United States Naval Academy, where she had been a professor before taking the […]

By Geoff Fein Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is in the midst of an effort with 11 of its largest industry partners to examine why some programs are facing cost […]

The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Thermo Fisher Scientific [TMO] a $28.5 million contract modification to provide for an increase in identiFINDER quantities from 160 to 362. Work will […]