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Marine Corps Looks To Field MADIS Air Defense By Next Year

Rich Abott — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:29:20 +0000

A Marine Corps official this week said the service is looking to field two new mobile air defense systems by next year as an example of how quickly it is […]

Marine Corps Starts New Fusion Center To Transition Tech Past ‘Valley Of Death’

Rich Abott — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:28:42 +0000

The Marine Corps in recent months established a new Fusion Center in Quantico, Va., that seeks to streamline how to push new technology past development toward production. Marine Corps officials […]

GD Delivering Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototype To Marine Corps On Friday

Matthew Beinart — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:56:08 +0000

General Dynamics Land Systems [GD] will deliver its Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) prototype to the Marine Corps on Friday, the company announced on Wednesday. The Marine Corps will receive the […]

Kaman Chosen To Build Prototype Marine Corps Logistics Drone

Rich Abott — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:24:50 +0000

Kaman Corp. [KAMN] said on Oct. 10 that it was chosen to build a prototype logistics Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for the Marine Corps based on its commercial KARGO UAV […]

Berger: Marine’s LRUSVs “Primarily” For ISR, Unmanned For Logistics

Rich Abott — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:19:05 +0000

The Commandant of the Marine Corps last week said the Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV) the service is developing will primarily act as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) […]

Smith Previews Marine Corps FY ‘24 Budget And Progress In Force Design

Rich Abott — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:11:15 +0000

A top Marine Corps officer recently said the service’s next budget will focus on logistics, transferring data securely, and organic mobility while also illustrating the service has had the most […]

Joby Aviation Signs Expanded Contract With Department of Defense

Reed — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:45:44 +0000

Joby Aviation recently expanded its existing contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The U.S. Marine Corps now joins the Army, Navy, and Air Force in testing and exploring […]

Navy IDs Potentially Defective Ejection Part, Grounds Planes

Rich Abott — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:49:22 +0000

The Navy and Marine Corps said they are replacing a potentially defective part used in pilot ejection in some planes like Super Hornets and training aircraft and grounding some planes […]

Sikorsky Delivers Seventh CH-53K

Rich Abott — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:21:43 +0000

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky [LMT] delivered the third Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and seventh overall CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter to the Marine Corps, the company said on July 14. […]

Berger: Next Amphibs Likely Work With Unmanned Systems, Smaller

Rich Abott — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 21:19:47 +0000

The Commandant of the Marine Corps on Thursday said he thinks the next major L-class amphibious ships will likely be smaller and be partially built around interacting with unmanned systems. […]

HII Wins $240 Million Mod For LPD-32 Advance Procurement Work

Rich Abott — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:49:07 +0000

The Navy awarded HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division [HII] a $240 million modification for long-lead-time material and advance procurement work for the next San Antonio-class Flight II amphibious transport dock ship, […]

Pratt & Whitney Wins $4.4 Billion Contract For F-35 Engines, Components

Rich Abott — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:21:54 +0000

The Navy awarded Raytheon Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney [RTX] an undefinitized contract modification worth up to $4.385 billion on June 14 for almost 180 F-35 engines. The award adds scope […]

Marine Corps Matches Navy With Aviation Stand Down

Rich Abott — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 20:59:16 +0000

A top Marine Corps official directed the services’ aviation units to conduct an aviation safety standdown on June 13, matching a similar order from the Navy. On Monday, Naval Air […]

Sikorsky Wins $186 Million For Two UPL CH-53K Helicopters

Rich Abott — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 21:23:01 +0000

The Navy awarded Sikorsky [LMT] a $185 million modification on May 31 to procure and deliver two more CH-53K King Stallion helicopters from the fiscal year 2022 unfunded priority list. […]

Marine Corps Announces CH-53K Helicopter Achieved Initial Operational Capability

Rich Abott — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:19:09 +0000

The Sikorsky [LMT] CH-53K King Stallion helicopter reached initial operational capability (IOC) on April 22, the Marine Corps said Monday. The service plans to deploy the first CH-53K Marine Expeditionary […]

Berger: Slow Russian Progress In Ukraine Gives China Pause In Taiwan, Validates USMC Direction on Modernization

Rich Abott — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:37:17 +0000

The Commandant of the Marine Corps this week said Russia’s slow progress of its invasion of Ukraine should cause China to reevaluate any plans to militarily take over Taiwan. “Without […]

Navy And Marine Corps Exercise Manned And Unmanned Helicopter Teaming

Rich Abott — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:31:31 +0000

The Navy and Marine Corps recently conducted a new manned-unmanned teaming exercise to demonstrate how a different combination of helicopters could be used in a potential littoral environment, the service […]

JAGM Achieves Initial Operational Capability For AH-1Z

Rich Abott — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:29:25 +0000

The Marine Corps said last week the AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) attained Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for use with the Bell Textron [TXT] AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter. The JAGM […]

Berger: New Capabilities Start In 2023

Rich Abott — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:23:24 +0000

The Marine Corps expects new capabilities it is experimenting with as part of the force design to start coming online in 2023. Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger is in the […]

Navy and Raytheon Conduct First StormBreaker Test On F-35B

Rich Abott — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:24:46 +0000

The Navy and Raytheon Technologies [RTX] conducted the first weapon drop of the StormBreaker bomb from an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, the company said Monday. During this test based at […]

Kongsberg Wins $94 Million Contract For Counter-UAS System

Rich Abott — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:28:39 +0000

The Marine Corps awarded Norway’s Kongsberg a contract worth up to $94 million to deliver the remote weapon systems (RWS) for the Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS) program as […]

Lockheed Martin Nabs $2 Billion F-35 Logistics Contract

Rich Abott — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:36:43 +0000

The Defense Department awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $2.014 billion contract definition award on Sept. 13 to provide logistics support for domestic and international customers of the F-35 Joint Strike […]

Lockheed Martin Nabs Contract For Nine CH-53K Helicopters With Option For More

Rich Abott — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:33:14 +0000

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky unit a $736 million contract on June 25 to build nine CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for the Marine Corps […]

Berger Lays Out Future Marine Corps Priorities, Says Ground-Based Anti-Ship Missile FY22 Priority

Rich Abott — Fri, 14 May 2021 21:52:15 +0000

Commandant of the Marine Corps David Berger last week outlined several areas he is focusing on through his Force Design 2030 effort and budget planning and called a new ground-based […]

GD Submits Prototype Proposal For Marine Corps ARV, SAIC Is Out

Rich Abott — Thu, 06 May 2021 21:32:57 +0000

General Dynamics’ [GD] Land Systems division this week announced it submitted a prototype proposal for the Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) prototype competition. GD is the incumbent that built […]

Textron Bids New Cottonmouth For Marine Corps ARV Prototype

Rich Abott — Tue, 04 May 2021 21:44:03 +0000

Textron Inc. submitted its prototype offering for the Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) program, a purpose-built vehicle it named the Cottonmouth, the company revealed Tuesday. The ARV effort began […]

Marines Consider Adding Missiles To Light Amphibious Warship

Rich Abott — Mon, 03 May 2021 21:12:18 +0000

The Marine Corps is considering adding containerized missiles to the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) to help better deter opponents, Commandant Gen. David Berger said in written testimony to the House […]

Marine Corps And Raytheon Test Naval Strike Missile Off Ground Vehicle

Rich Abott — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:31:08 +0000

Raytheon Technologies [RTX] last Wednesday revealed an image of the successful recent live fire test with the Marine Corps of a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) against a sea surface target […]

GAO Recommends Navy Limit CH-53K Buys Until Testing Is Finished

Rich Abott — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:10:40 +0000

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report this month recommended the Navy should not buy more than six new CH-53K King Stallion helicopters per year until the initial operational test and […]

Berger: Trusted AI and Unmanned Tools Needed In the Future

Rich Abott — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:46:54 +0000

The commandant of the Marine Corps this week said unmanned teaming and increased artificial intelligence (AI) is needed to maintain superiority over China in the future. “I’m a believer in […]

Most DoD Aircraft Do Not Meet Mission Capable Goals, GAO Finds

Kelsey Reichmann — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:54:04 +0000

Military aircraft spanning all branches failed to meet mission capable rates according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that analyzed 46 types of aircraft from fiscal […]

Navy Issues RFI For Light Amphibious Warship Preliminary Design

Rich Abott — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:41:54 +0000

The Navy issued a Request For Information (RFI) for the preliminary design (PD) for the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) on Oct. 16, revealing more specifications for the ship. The solicitation […]

Geurts: ACV On Track, Full-Rate Production Decision Soon

Rich Abott — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:03:47 +0000

The Navy’s top acquisition official said the Marine Corps’ new Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) program is on track and he was pleased with its performance. BAE Systems is currently producing […]

Marine Corps Partners with Air Force Agility Prime on eVTOL Aircraft for Logistics

Brian Garrett-Glaser — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 21:30:04 +0000

The Pentagon’s interest in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft continues to grow, with the Marine Corps’ Warfighting Lab now partnering with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program to […]