U.S. Navy

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are vying for the NGAD program while the three military services are teaming on uncrewed aircraft development.

The service is undertaking a series of new munitions programs.

The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have agreed to work together on developing collaborative combat aircraft by standardizing multiple system components.

The Pentagon plans to field thousands of autonomous systems—including aircraft, ships and ground vehicles—on a scale not seen within two years.

The U.S. Navy’s secretive next-generation fighter program has completed concept refinement and has moved into a design maturation phase.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have seen their rates of series aircraft incidents decrease but the cost for each mishap has risen significantly.

Sikorsky has received a $2.7 billion contract for the next two production lots of its CH-53K Sea Stallion heavy-lift helicopter.

The capital investments by Boeing are supporting the company's "future franchise" programs, which possibly include the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

The U.S. Navy’s top officer stepped aside Aug. 14, meaning that three services are without Senate-confirmed leaders amid an ongoing hold by a lone senator.

The U.S. Army has a series of Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) missiles almost done with production and ready to be deployed.

The Conventional Prompt Strike missile is one of several weapon systems pursuing alternatives to an increasingly threatened GPS-based approach to navigation.

The next increment of OASuW is the Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive (HALO) weapon, first disclosed in a budget request in 2022 with prototypes expected this year.

The U.S. should study the design of a system for public reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

The Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy are replacing the input quill assembly in the tiltrotor’s gearbox every 800 flight hours.

The U.S. military has set up a new joint pathway aimed at bringing on nontraditional suppliers to try to grow the propulsion industrial base.

New technology is making simulated training more powerful than ever, but obstacles remain for the U.S. military to exploit recent advances fully.

Northrop Grumman’s sales rose 9% year-on-year to $9.6 billion in the second quarter while earnings-per-share (EPS) fell to $5.34 from $6.06 a year ago.

President Joe Biden has picked U.S. Navy Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the service, becoming the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The U.S. Marine Corps has known since 2010 of a critical safety issue on its V-22 Osprey fleet.

Link Plumeria is now formally attached to the F/A-XX development project at the heart of the Navy’s Next Generation Air Dominance program.

The White House on July 10 announced strong opposition to several aspects of the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2024 defense policy bill.

The $94.2 million deal for the LongShot program allows GA-ASI to move beyond the critical design review phase.

Startup HyperKelp says it is demonstrating air-droppable buoys for the U.S. Navy that could detect the acoustic signature of boost-glide hypersonic vehicles.

House appropriators are not impressed with how major Pentagon hypersonic programs have performed in recent tests.