Navy

The Navy kicked off an exercise, the Repair Technology Exercise (REPTX), testing over 60 maintenance technologies aboard its Self Defense Test Ship on Aug. 22. The REPTX will run Aug. […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it selected Serco Inc. to move forward with the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) X-ship medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) program. NOMARS […]

The Navy on Aug. 19 awarded Boeing [BA] a full-rate production contract for the High-Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC), which allows P-8As to launch torpedoes from high altitudes. The […]

The Navy’s first Military Sealift Command (MSC) ship completed maintenance work at a shipyard in India this month, after both governments said they would consider this cooperation in April. MSC’s […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Thursday it delivered to the Navy the 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS) system set to be installed on a destroyer. […]

The Navy released its annual inactivation schedule message last week, listing 29 ships it plans to inactivate and decommission in fiscal year 2023, barring intervention from Congress. The list includes […]

A Navy T-45C Goshawk trainer jet aircraft crashed on Aug. 16 in Texas, the service said Tuesday, at least the third such crash in the region in under two years. […]

The U.S. Navy completed the biennial Pacific Dragon 2022 exercise off the coast of Hawaii this week, which included a Standard Missile (SM-3) intercept test. This multinational air and missile […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Textron Systems’ [TXT] protest of the Navy’s Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MCM USV) contract, worth up to $123 million, the office said Aug. […]

Last month the Navy received the first Raytheon Technologies [RTX] Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) production-representative pods for use in Navy testing at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) […]