Austal USA turned over the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) to the U.S. Navy just over a month following the completion of acceptance trials of the 18th Independence-variant littoral combat ship —
MoreThe U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin’s space business a potential five-year, $109.2 million contract to help integrate the Trident II D5 missile and reentry subsystems into the common missile compartment as
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed through a voice vote Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, to serve as head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Air Force Times reported. He will
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Sigma Defense has secured a potential five-year, $59 million contract to help the U.S. Navy integrate autonomy software into unmanned vehicles, or UxVs, using DevSecOps and agile methodologies. The company said Wednesday
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Cubic‘s defense business has secured a $41.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to equip the Naval Air Systems Command’s MH-60 Sierra helicopter fleet with KnightLink full motion video system. The
MoreThe U.S. Navy commissioned USS John L. Canley, a 784-foot expeditionary sea base — or ESB — variant of the Expeditionary Transfer Dock platform, at Naval Air Station North Island on Saturday.
MoreCarlos Del Toro, secretary of the U.S. Navy and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, has underscored the service branch’s efforts to maintain global maritime dominance and prevail over strategic competition with China during
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Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, most recently commander of the Fifth Fleet and CMF or the Combined Maritime Forces, has taken on the role of deputy commander of U.S. Central Command. CENTCOM announced
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The U.S. Navy is using additive manufacturing aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious landing ships as part of broader efforts to deliver or maintain platforms “more quickly, cheaply, and effectively,” according to the
MoreThe U.S. Navy’s Standard Missile-3 Block IIA effectively intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile after being launched from the Aegis Weapon System on an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. SM-3 Blk IIA was
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