Navy/USMC

The Navy has identified five areas that require design study to add capabilities to the new FF(X) frigate program, according to a budget document released by the House Appropriations Committee […]

Navy officials last week said the new FF(X) frigate, based on the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter (NSC) design, will have extremely constrained engineering changes and they plan to primarily […]

The Navy was facing a choice between either fielding hypersonic weapons or keeping a planned naval gun on the DDG(X) future destroyer program until the Trump administration’s push to supersede  […]

Modernization of additional Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyers are underway following the completion of the first phase of the upgrades with the initial destroyer, the USS Pinckney (DDG-91), the program […]

The Navy’s top officer this week argued the U.S. annual defense budget should stick to a “new normal” above four percent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to maintain […]

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on Wednesday said he strongly supports putting large-power laser weapons on the Trump-class battleship and even foresees lasers reaching upwards of one megawatt in […]

The Navy’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers are proceeding roughly on time to install the missile tubes and systems that will allow them to be the service’s ships to field hypersonic weapons, […]

Korean conglomerate Hanwha’s U.S. defense business last week announced it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with American autonomy developer HavocAI to jointly develop a 200-foot autonomous surface vessel (ASV) […]

The Navy plans to award a sole source contract to the service’s two largest shipbuilders, General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works and HII [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding, for the Trump administration’s […]

The Navy’s future small surface combatant will serve as a command-and-control platform to coordinate with, and operate, unmanned systems as part of the service’s hybrid fleet, a Navy official said […]