Navy/USMC

The Secretary of the Navy this week admitted the service will need more RTX [RTX] Standard Missile (SM)-3s for regional air and missile defense missions in the wake of recent […]

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle completed full-scale in-water testing earlier this year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said. DARPA this week announced the Manta Ray […]

A top member of the House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee rallied 120 lawmakers to sign on to a letter pushing appropriators to fund two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) in the […]

A Marine Corps official this week said the service is looking to field two new mobile air defense systems by next year as an example of how quickly it is […]

BAE Systems’ Norfolk Ship Repair facility in Virginia won an $87 million Navy contract to perform maintenance, modernization and repair of the USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) this year. The contract, […]

The Marine Corps in recent months established a new Fusion Center in Quantico, Va., that seeks to streamline how to push new technology past development toward production. Marine Corps officials […]

HII [HII] delivered the 23rd Virginia-class attack submarine to the Navy on Thursday, the future USS New Jersey (SSN-796). SSN-796 is the 11th submarine of its type HII’s Newport News […]

The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Electra.aero, Inc. a contract to study how it might use the company’s hybrid-electric electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for logistics in a […]

The Navy received its first two operational Textron [TXT] T-54A multi-engine training system (METS) aircraft earlier this month. The service is buying the T-54s to replace the aging T-44C Pegasus […]

The Secretary of the Navy on Tuesday confirmed the government is negotiating a multi-ship procurement of four amphibious ships, with an announcement expected within weeks. “I think you’ll see something […]