Navy/USMC

The Acting Commandant of the Marine Corps ordered a two-day safety stand-down of aviation units following three crashes in less than two months. Most recently, on Sept. 17 a pilot […]

The Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle reached a Navy declaration of initial operating capability (IOC) on Aug. 3 and the aircraft are back in Guam for another […]

The U.S. 4th Fleet deployed 10 Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) via commercial operators on Sept. 14 as part of a fleet operation. The Navy said these USVs are […]

L3 Harris Technologies [LHX] said its Aerojet Rocketdyne subsidiary was chosen by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide the propulsion system for the anti-ship Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive Anti-Surface weapon (HALO). The […]

The nominee to be the next Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) said Thursday that whenever a blanket hold on high level military promotions is lifted it will ultimately take years […]

The Department of the Navy’s comptroller this week warned if the government faces a sequester starting in 2024 the Navy would face a $15 billion budget cut and if there […]

The Navy comptroller this week said the Secretary of the Navy directed a new initiative, dubbed Running Fix, to find more ways to increase efficiencies and save money in the […]

The Navy is seeking participants for an upcoming 2024 event, called Silent Swarm, that will experiment with using swarming small unmanned systems of all types (UxS) to disrupt an opponent’s […]

A top Marine Corps official recently said the service is looking to deploy loitering munitions off on unmanned vessels, but the capability has not been tested yet. Speaking during the […]

The Navy awarded Austal USA a $91.5 million modification on Sept. 6 for the detail design and construction of three Landing Craft Utility (LCU)-1700 class craft, making it the second […]