Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy Offers Industry Day For ‘Foundry’ ICS Hardware Program
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has scheduled an industry day next month to overview the service’s Integrated Combat System (ICS) hardware factory program and pipeline called the Foundry. The notice, […]
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InternationalAustralia Plans To Buy Fourth MQ-4C Triton Drone
The Australian Ministry of Defense announced on Sept. 19 it plans to spend $975 million to acquire a fourth Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle and also upgrade […]
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Navy/USMCSmith Orders Marine Aviation Safety Stand-down After Three Crashes
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 […]
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Unmanned SystemsNavy’s MQ-4C Triton UAV Achieves IOC, Back For Second Deployment
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 […]
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Navy/USMC4th Fleet Starts Using 10 Saildrone USVs In Long-Term Operation Test
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 […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne To Power HALO
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 […]
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Navy/USMCVCNO Franchetti: Tuberville Holds Will Take Years For Promotion Delays To Fully Recover
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 […]
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BudgetNavy Comptroller: Sequester Would Cut Navy Budget By $15 Billion
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 […]
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BudgetSECNAV Directs ‘Running Fix’ Effort To Find High-Level Savings And Efficiencies
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 […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Seeks Participants For ‘Silent Swarm’ Electromagnetic Spectrum Experiment
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 […]
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