Navy/USMC

Testing the first hypersonic missiles on the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyer is running at least two years behind plan for 2025, pushed back to 2027, a Navy official said Thursday. […]

The Navy director for Naval Reactors said the service plans to at least reach Block Eight on Virginia-class attack submarines before moving on to next-generation submarines now planned for the […]

The Navy awarded Norway’s Kongsberg a $961 million multiyear contract for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), also known as the Over the Horizon-Weapons System encanistered missiles. NSMs are currently deployed […]

The Navy on Nov. 8 awarded Textron Systems [TXT] a $394 million modification to build nine more Ship to Shore Connectors (SSC) hovercraft. The SSCs are 100-class Landing Craft Air […]

A pair of companies with experience dismantling maritime vessels and nuclear facilities, respectively, are teaming up to compete on the dismantlement of decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, starting with the […]

The Navy tested command and control of an unmanned aircraft using its Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS) for the first time this week in a demo using the  […]

The Navy on Wednesday announced it and Northrop Grumman [NOC] completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) on the newest set of improvements to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, the Delta System […]

Last month Boeing [BA] said its Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) finished a 48-hour endurance sailing run. During this exercise, the vehicle operated fully autonomously below the sea […]

BAE Systems on Friday said it signed a contract with the Netherlands to provide eight new Bofors 40 Mk4 40mm naval guns for the Royal Netherlands and Belgian Navies. The […]

The Navy plans to extend the operations of 12 Flight 1 Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers and three Ticonderoga-class cruisers past their planned service lives to boost fleet numbers, the service […]