The world of great power competition requires a United States Navy and Marine Corps capable of deterring foes, reassuring allies and ensuring trade. To continue to maintain U.S. maritime superiority, the Department of the Navy released the annual 30-year shipbuilding plan, Dec. 10.

The plan outli…

The administration of lame-duck U.S. president Donald Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the offices of president-elect Joe Biden’s naval transition team.

With just a month left in Trump’s term, his administration has begun rolling out a long-delayed shipbuilding plan—one that has little chanc…

BAE Systems Land and Armaments L.P., Sterling Heights, Michigan, is awarded an $184,444,865 fixed-price-incentive (firm target) modification to previously awarded contract M67854-16-0006 for Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV).

This modification provides for the procurement of 36 full rate product…

Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Yokosuka awarded its second major aircraft maintenance contract of 2020, for its mission partner Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) Western Pacific.

The $278 million, eight-year contract was awarded to Korean Air Lines and will enable F…

PARIS — The new 1,000-kilogram version of the AASM (Armement Air-Sol Modulaire — air-to-ground modular weapon) Hammer (Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range) designed and produced by Safran Electronics & Defense, successfully completed its first two inert separation tests from a Rafale omn…

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — Attempts at airborne retrieval of three unmanned air vehicles, nicknamed Gremlins, were just inches from success in DARPA’s latest flight test series that started on October 28. Each X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) flew for more than two hours, successfully validatin…