Navy/USMC

More than six months after his nomination, and just shy of a month after his Senate confirmation, Adm. Bill Houston on Thursday took over as director of the Naval Nuclear […]

The Navy has picked the initial four Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyers to be upgraded in the Mod 2.0 effort, which upgrades sensors, radars, the Aegis combat system and cooling […]

In 2020, Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the then commander of Naval Surface Forces and the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Naval Surface Force, directed the establishment of Task Force Littoral Combat Ship […]

HII [HII] delivered the stern of the first new Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to prime contractor General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD], the company’s chief executive told reporters Monday. HII […]

Since last summer, the U.S. Navy has been evaluating hardware for Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Integrated Combat System (ICS) aboard an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81). “We’re […]

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro on Monday evening asked for input and solutions across the Navy and Marine Corps for program and process fixes that would eliminate inefficiencies and strengthen […]

The commander of Naval Surface Forces wants the service to accelerate deployment of directed energy weapons on ships to defend against threats like the Navy is dealing with currently from […]

HII [HII] is pushing for the Navy to procure aircraft carriers with a strategy it dubs 2-3-4: two ship carrier block buys with three years of advance procurement (AP) and […]

Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) on Monday said it has acquired Samtan Engineering Corp., which provides metalworking services for Navy and Coast Guard vessels, and aerospace and commercial customers. Terms of […]

A Texas federal judge ruled on Dec. 29 that Pittsburgh’s Howmet Aerospace [HWM] likely broke its contract to supply titanium mill products to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the F-35 fighter, […]