Navy/USMC

The Chief of Naval Operations (NCO) this week said his upcoming new strategic guidance, dubbed the United States Navy Fighting Instructions, will be a framework guided by his new “hedge […]

The Navy’s top officer on Tuesday said the F/A-XX next-generation fighter aircraft program needs to start now to prepare for proliferating advanced anti-aircraft systems today and what those capabilities will […]

Leonardo DRS [DRS] on Jan. 23 announced the opening of its new $120 million naval power and propulsion manufacturing and testing facility in Charleston, S.C. The new facility stands at […]

HII’s [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding division this week announced it completed builder’s sea trials for the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyer following the completion of a modernization period that makes it the […]

Congressional appropriators added $800 million to the Navy’s Medium Landing Ship program (LSM) in the latest defense spending bill in order to help shift the shipyard building the two Constellation-class […]

The Navy has rescheduled an industry day for the Naval Modular Missile (NMM) program for Feb. 27, after it was previously postponed in October during the government shutdown, according to […]

Appropriators are pushing the Navy to award an Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract for the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter aircraft while boosting funding close to $1 billion, according to […]

The Navy has identified five areas that require design study to add capabilities to the new FF(X) frigate program, according to a budget document released by the House Appropriations Committee […]

Navy officials last week said the new FF(X) frigate, based on the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter (NSC) design, will have extremely constrained engineering changes and they plan to primarily […]

The Navy was facing a choice between either fielding hypersonic weapons or keeping a planned naval gun on the DDG(X) future destroyer program until the Trump administration’s push to supersede  […]