Navy/USMC

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Monday revealed an in-development longer range variant of the AGM-158 cruise missile, the XR. The new AGM-158 XR is being developed only […]

The Navy last Friday awarded General Dynamics’ [GD] National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) a $6.75 billion block buy contract covering eight more John Lewis-class T-AO 205 fleet replenishment oilers. […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) this week announced that earlier this year it awarded three contracts for vendors to build a database that allows unmanned systems to operate in disconnected […]

A non-profit organization formed by the submarine industrial base (SIB) on Tuesday won a $951 million Navy contract to help improve that industrial base. The Defense Department contract announcement said […]

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s recent letter to congressional appropriations leaders warned a six-month continuing resolution (CR) would put the schedule and cost of the new Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines […]

The Navy on Tuesday confirmed a recent contract to L3Harris Technologies [LHX] is for the engineering and manufacturing development of the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band (NGJ-LB), following several setbacks to […]

The U.S. subsidiary of the U.K.’s QinetiQ said Sept. 5 it won a contract from General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to provide control hardware and software for the new catapults […]

NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) awarded Belgium’s Exail Robotics Belgium a $66 million contract for K-Ster CT unmanned mine countermeasures mine neutralization training vehicles and associated equipment for underwater […]

A Navy official this week said the service is trying to develop a standards-based approach for unmanned acquisitions, but admitted getting industry to all agree on the standards is a […]

The Marine Corps is preparing to move an autonomous resupply vessel to the Japan-based 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) to conduct field testing this fall, an official said Wednesday. […]