TUCSON, Arizona — The DoD recently announced that Raytheon has been awarded a $258 million contract for the engineering, manufacturing, and development of SM-2 Block IIICU All Up Rounds. This is a new ...

The E-130J received its popular name designation, Phoenix II, in August 2025. The Phoenix II will be the Navy’s new Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) mission aircraft for decades to come. (Artist ...

[i] Glen Lamartin, conversation with Johannes Schmidt, 25 October 2023. [ii] Terry Ritchie, conversation with Johannes Schmidt, 6 June 2024. [iii] Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Christian ...

A welder from Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC, welds the initials of the Surveyor’s sponsor, Tracey L. Brennan, onto a steel plate that will be incorporated into the ship, in keeping with maritime ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WSML 750) rendezvoused with U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle (WIX 327) for a passenger exchange and formation steaming in the Pacific Ocean, August 6, 2025. Eagle is ...

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Mr. C Scott Duncan (second from left) addresses the crew of USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) during a ship tour, aboard the ship Aug. 13, 2025. ...

NORFOLK, Va. – Sailors and Marines assigned to the Iwo Jima (IWO) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) – 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC) departed for a regularly ...

The U.S. Navy is too small for what is asked of it, and what is asked of it is insufficient to meet the nation’s needs. We have too few ships, submarines, aircraft, aircraft carriers, people, sensors, ...

NORFOLK, Va. – The U.S. Coast Guard’s Facilities Design and Construction Center in Norfolk, Virginia, has awarded RQ Construction a $32 million design-build contract for the reconstruction of ...

DARPA has marked a traditional naval milestone with the christening of USX-1 Defiant, a first-of-its-kind autonomous, unmanned surface vessel designed from the ground up to never accommodate a human ...

Ashley Johnson, technical director of Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, briefs the center’s modernization plan to members of the southern Maryland industrial community. U.S. Navy | ...

MAYPORT, Fla. – U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, and participating nation forces are set to arrive at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., in support of UNITAS 2025 (66) the world’s longest-running multinational ...