The Marine Corps started initial operational test and evaluation on its CH-53K helicopter program last month, program manager Col. Jack Perrin said Tuesday.
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The Marine Corps started initial operational test and evaluation on its CH-53K helicopter program last month, program manager Col. Jack Perrin said Tuesday.
A continuing resolution would slow the Marine Corps' efforts to redesign its force to pivot to a potential fight with China in the Pacific, a Marine Corps leader said Tuesday.
The Navy is set to receive a total of 26 F-16C/Ds from the Air Force to help replace the F-18A-Ds and will use the aircraft in an adversary role, a Navy spokesman told Inside Defense.
The Navy's Large-Scale Exercise 2021, which started Tuesday, is the service's biggest exercise in recent history, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said Monday.
The Navy does not want Congress to add F/A-18E/F Super Hornets the service did not request in its budget, according to Adm. Andrew Loiselle, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 4.
The final four of the 11 elevators for the first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald Ford (CVN-78) will be complete by the end of the year, a Navy official said Tuesday.
The industrial base is not currently capable of building three Virginia-class submarines a year, a Huntington Ingalls Industries executive told reporters Monday.
Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries plans on completing the testing, certification and turnover of the final four elevators for the first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald Ford (CVN-78) by the end of the year, according to a company executive. (UPDATED)
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday called on industry to adjust to new technology faster to counter China during remarks Monday at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference.
Lockheed Martin expects its Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare program to reach milestone C and start low-rate initial production in the next two months, a company official told Inside Defense Wednesday.
The House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee is concerned about the pace of adaptive and cognitive electronic warfare capability development, according to its mark of the fiscal year 2022 defense bill.
The House Armed Services readiness subcommittee is concerned about the Navy's implementation of its Optimized Fleet Response Plan, which aims to address long-standing readiness issues.
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee is recommending funding a second destroyer after the Navy omitted the ship from its budget request.
Deloitte announced Monday it has acquired Sentek Consulting, a San Diego-based systems engineering and cybersecurity firm that primarily serves the Navy.
The Navy is aiming to get the Zumwalt (DDG-1000), the lead ship of its new destroyer class, into exercises next year, Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the commander of Naval Surface Forces, told reporters Thursday.
The Senate Armed Services Committee has added a second destroyer to the Navy's budget and extended the service's ability to execute a block-buy contract for four amphibious ships.
The Navy will award a pre-production planning contract later this year for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) for the Ford-class aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN-81), a service spokesman told Inside Defense.
A top Navy official said Wednesday two Littoral Combat Ships the service has proposed decommissioning could instead be sold to a foreign military or kept in some sort of reserve capability.
Key seapower lawmakers want a more detailed long-term shipbuilding plan as they believe the Navy's most recent plan, the first released under the Biden administration, is too vague.
The Marine Corps announced Friday that it has selected Textron Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems to build Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle prototypes.