The U.S. Navy’s largest shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls, has announced that the keel of the America-class amphibious warship Bougainville (LHA 8) was authenticated during a ceremony on Thursday, March 14. Ship’s sponsor Ellyn Dunford declared the keel “truly and fairly laid” after her initials were welded onto a plate. Ellyn Dunford, spouse of Gen. Joe Dunford, 19th chairman […]

The U.S. Marine Corps released video of modern ship-launchable and ship-recoverable 8×8 wheeled combat vehicles, known as Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV). On 13 March, the official Twitter account of U.S. Marine Corps posted a video of new Amphibious Combat Vehicle and added that vehicle is off the tracks. The ACV performs best in class mobility […]

Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon’s No. 1 weapons supplier, has won a contract valued more as $84 million to upgrade guided missiles designed to be carried and launched by military aircraft and helicopters. The U.S. Department of Defense said Thursday that Lockheed Martin is awarded an $84,1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform design and […]

Northrop Grumman has announced on 12 March that for the first time ever, members of the U.S. Marine Corps used Northrop Grumman’s Distributed Training Center (DTC) located at Joint Base Langley-Eustis to train for close air support combat missions. The aerospace giant reported during two training events, eight F-15E aircrews based at Mountain Home Air […]

U.S. weapons maker Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a contract valued at as much as  $89,5 million to provide sustainment and engineering services in support of the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the U.S. Navy. The contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, procures the technical expertise of field service representatives, logisticians […]

The U.S. Navy’s most expensive destroyer ever left San Diego on Friday for its first “operational underway”, according to Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Natalie M. Byers. According to a statement released by the U.S. Navy, the Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), costing upward of $4.4 billion, departed San Diego as part of an […]

The U.S. Navy has signed delivery order for Bell-Boeing team to upgrade an additional four MV-22 Osprey aircraft to the Block C configuration. The modification to a previously awarded contract, announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense, is worth more than $85,7 million and provides for the upgrade of four MV-22 aircraft from the […]

The U.S. Marine Corps will gain enhanced capabilities with a newly-fielded Ground/Air Task Oriented radar system, according to a Defense Department report. G/ATOR, an expeditionary, three-dimensional medium-range radar system, is being developed and fielded in three blocks that will support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force across the range of its capabilities. Block 1—which began fielding […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, has announced that the BQM-177A Subsonic Aerial Target (SSAT) has achieved Initial Operational Capability. As reported by the U.S. Navy (NAVAIR website article) who stated, “On 27 February 2019 the US Navy’s next-generation Sub-Sonic Aerial Target (SSAT), the BQM-177A, reached its program milestone of Initial Operational Capability (IOC). The milestone […]

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to build 10 of 20 next-generation guided-missile frigates, know as FFG(X). According to a notice posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) intends to issue a solicitation under full and open competition in the fourth […]