Navy

The Navy’s top official said the service would welcome the chance to renew the it’s four public shipyards faster than planned under a current 20-year plan if given more funding. […]

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) this week said the Navy intends to field hypersonic missiles aboard the Zumwalt-class destroyers by 2025, reversing previous plans to first install the weapons […]

A bipartisan group of legislators on Wednesday introduced a new bill to provide $25 billion in funds to help recapitalize public and private shipyards supporting the Navy. The Supplying Help […]

The Navy selected Martin UAV and its V-BAT for a vertical take-off and landing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) prototyping effort as a result of the Mi2 Challenge concluding this month. […]

An MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter crashed into the side of the littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Charleston (LCS-18) after taking off from the ship on April 26, the U.S. […]

The Navy used both manned and unmanned assets to have an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer launch and hit a target using a Standard Missile (SM)-6 from over-the-horizon ranges, service officials […]

Thales announced this week it finished contract negotiations with Lockheed Martin [LMT] to supply up to 55 anti-submarine warfare Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS) units worth over $100 million for […]

The Navy awarded an $850 million SeaPort-NxG multiple award contract (MAC) task order to IBM [IBM] on April 24 for Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Technical Support Services (NETSS) work. […]

The Navy’s newest aircraft carrier recently finished its combat systems ship’s qualification trials (CSSQT) and reached 8,000 aircraft launches and recoveries. The CSSQT work onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford […]

This month two leading House Armed Services Committee members submitted a bipartisan bill  to extend the Annual Report on Material Readiness of Navy Ships, conducted by the Board of Inspection […]