Navy/USMC

The Navy recently issued a Request For Information (RFI) seeking more sources able to support Constellation-class frigate design and follow-on construction amid significant delays in the program’s schedule. The notice, […]

A Navy official last week promised the first Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine will deploy for patrol by 2030 despite a year of delays. “How’s Columbia going today? In one […]

A recent Navy notice said it plans to soon issue a Request For Solutions (RFS) for two sizes of low cost unmanned maritime vessel prototypes.  The notice described this as […]

A Navy submarine official last week reiterated their “North Star” plans to increase submarine production to two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN) and one Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine annually by 2028, […]

Testing the first hypersonic missiles on the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyer is running at least two years behind plan for 2025, pushed back to 2027, a Navy official said Thursday. […]

The Navy director for Naval Reactors said the service plans to at least reach Block Eight on Virginia-class attack submarines before moving on to next-generation submarines now planned for the […]

The Navy awarded Norway’s Kongsberg a $961 million multiyear contract for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), also known as the Over the Horizon-Weapons System encanistered missiles. NSMs are currently deployed […]

The Navy on Nov. 8 awarded Textron Systems [TXT] a $394 million modification to build nine more Ship to Shore Connectors (SSC) hovercraft. The SSCs are 100-class Landing Craft Air […]

A pair of companies with experience dismantling maritime vessels and nuclear facilities, respectively, are teaming up to compete on the dismantlement of decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, starting with the […]

The Navy tested command and control of an unmanned aircraft using its Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS) for the first time this week in a demo using the  […]