Navy

Lawmakers on a congressional panel continued pushing back against Navy plans to retire seven Ticonderoga-class cruisers due to cost, including two vessels added to the plan this year, while officials […]

Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine announced on June 11 its board of directors chose former Navy Capt. Mark Vandroff to become the Wisconsin shipyard’s next CEO. Vandroff is set to take over […]

Legislation introduced by two Republican representatives this week seeks to hold half of the Defense Department’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office’s budget until the Navy conducts a block […]

The Navy said its Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) program breached the Nunn-McCurdy acquisition threshold due to increasing costs, but noted it is not critical and production will continue. The SSC consists […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] delivered the first AL/SLQ-32(V)7 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 engineering and development model (EDM) unit to the Navy for land-based testing, the company announced […]

The White House announced it is nominating Carlos Del Toro, a former Navy commander and president of a small information technology firm, to be the next Secretary of the Navy. […]

Leonardo delivered the first new TH-73A Navy training helicopter during a ceremony on Thursday at its facility in Philadelphia. The ceremony included Vice Admiral Kenneth Whitesell, commander of Naval Air […]

The Navy has reached an agreement with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] on procuring four amphibious ships at once, but the Pentagon is delaying a decision until a new force […]

The Navy awarded Austal USA a $44 million contract modification on June 7 to build and demonstrate autonomous capability in the future expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Apalachicola (EPF-13). The […]

The Navy is planning to replace the gun system on each Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000) destroyer with the capability to field up to 12 hypersonic weapons as a “compelling strike platform,” according […]