Navy/USMC

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat [GD] recently launched the next Virginia-class submarine, the future USS Idaho (SSN-799), Naval Sea Systems Command said Tuesday. The float off into the Thames River at […]

The Navy is seeking industry information on technologies to experiment with and the Navy perform subsea and seabed warfare (SSW), according to a recent Request for Information (RFI). An August […]

The Navy on Monday awarded General Dynamics’ Electric Boat [GD] a $1.3 billion undefinitized contract modification for economic ordering quantity material in support of planned Block IV Virginia-class attack submarines […]

The Navy recently reported it successfully completed the first land-based demonstration of a way to reload MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems at sea. This test occurred at Naval Surface Warfare […]

The Senate appropriators’ fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill, voted out of committee Thursday, funds Navy shipbuilding at $37 billion, $3.4 billion over the Biden administration’s request with a focus […]

Leonardo DRS [DRS] in July won a contract potentially worth upwards of $417 million in U.S. and allied naval fleet electronic combat control and sonar systems equipment, the company announced […]

General Dynamics [GD] on Thursday announced the president of Electric Boat (EB) is retiring at the end of the year and will be succeeded by the senior vice president and […]

The Navy accepted delivery of the USS Nantucket (LCS-27) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)  on July 29, the third to last version of the ship for the service. The service […]

The Navy last week announced it is establishing a new program office focused on the maritime industrial base and is assigning a top career civil servant from the office of […]

The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise featured several long-planned live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEXs) this month, sinking two decommissioned U.S. Navy ships. The decommissioned Austin-class USS Dubuque (LPD-8) amphibious […]