Navy/USMC

Navy officials this week said the service plans to decide by fiscal year 2026 if it will extend the USS Alaska (SSBN-732) as the first of several Ohio-class ballistic missile […]

A Navy official this week confirmed the service plans to buy five Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) in a block buy after the first two vessels, while also noting […]

The Navy issued a Request for Information (RFI) on Oct. 26 seeking information from industry, academia, and government research and development organizations on radars to be used on unmanned surface […]

The Navy awarded HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding [HII] a $2.4 billion contract modification on Oct. 27 for the detail, design and construction of the fourth America-class amphibious assault ship, LHA-9. The […]

The Defense Department is conducting a second flight campaign this week with hypersonic experiments to help develop hypersonic weapons and defense, the Navy said on Oct. 26. The campaign is […]

On Tuesday the Secretary of the Navy on Wednesday warned industry about Chinese spying amid recent federal charges against alleged spies. “Be very protective of the data in your own […]

The White House recently announced it “strongly opposes” several provisions related to Navy shipbuilding and retention in the Senate’s fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill. The Office of Management and […]

The USS Jackson (LCS-6) Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship conducted over two dozen flight hours with the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle during a recent deployment in the Western Pacific […]

The U.S. Navy is sharing insights from Project Overmatch with some allies and partners to help them all potentially fight together in the future. “So some of our allies and […]

The Navy’s top officer said up to half of surface ship maintenance delay days are tied to several vessels the service wants to decommission. “We’ve gone from 7,700 delay days […]