Navy/USMC

The Navy recently awarded General Dynamics’ Mission Systems [GD] a contract worth up to $58 million for a new submarine-launched unmanned minelayer. The original solicitation or the program said the […]

A specially configured U.S. F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) Lightning II aircraft for the first time touched down on a Japanese naval vessel over the weekend for the […]

The Australian government on Monday announced a $4.7 billion deal to procure RTX [RTX] Standard Missile-2 Block IIIC (SM-2 IIIC) and SM-6 for its surface naval ships. “The Standard Missile‑6 […]

The Navy awarded BAE Systems’s Norfolk Ship Repair unit two contracts on Oct. 18 for maintenance, modernization and repair of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) and amphibious assault […]

The Navy relieved the top two officers of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) on Oct. 20, the service said on Sunday. Capt. Zaldy […]

The State Department on Friday approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of hundreds of RTX [RTX] Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B tactical missiles and related equipment for Japan. […]

The Navy is looking into working with industry to potentially create a Ford-class aircraft carrier dry dock on the West Coast and Hawaii, according to a recent notice. In the […]

The Navy’s top officer said naval operations in the Red Sea against Houthi weapons launches from Yemen has helped the service quickly adapt and evolve tactics and systems. During a […]

The Navy successfully demonstrated the first open ocean re-arming of a Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) with an underway warship, in a major step to field the new system […]

The Lionfish small unmanned undersea vehicle (SUUV) developer, HII’s Unmanned Systems [HII], announced it successfully finished reviews leading into the start of full-rate production on the vehicle to be used […]