An industry team led by Lockheed Martin has launched the U.S. Navy‘s 15th Littoral Combat Ship into the Menominee River from the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin. Lockheed said Saturday that USS Billings will undergo additional outfitting and testing activities at the Wisconsin-based shipyard ahead of a scheduled delivery to the service branch in 2018. Fincantieri Marinette Marine, […] More

Lockheed Martin has transported an 11th Littoral Combat Ship the company built for the U.S. Navy to the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin. USS Sioux City will be outfitted and tested at the shipyard prior to its scheduled delivery to the Navy in 2017, Lockheed said Saturday. “The future USS Sioux City“™s interchangeable mission modules will […] More

Joe North, vice president of Lockheed Martin“™s Littoral Combat Ship program, has said the company will continue to build combat ships for the U.S. Navy through mid-2020s despite program reductions, DoD Buzz reported Monday. Hope Hodge Seck writes Defense Secretary Ashton Carter ordered the Navy in December to reduce the number of ships from 52 […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed the keel laying for the 15th U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin. Ship sponsor Sharla Tester welded her initials on a sheet of steel that will be fixed on USS Billings during the ceremony, Lockheed said Monday. “The LCS platform is proving the Navy’s concept of operations […] More

A team led by Lockheed Martin has introduced a new Littoral Combat Ship for the U.S. Navy at a Marinette Marine-owned shipyard in the Menominee River in Wisconsin. The company said Saturday Janee Bonner served as the sponsor for the USS Little Rock and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus delivered the keynote address at the christening ceremony held Saturday. Lockheed […] More

A consortium of Lockheed Martin, Marinette Marine and Gibbs & Cox has started to design and construct a 13th Littoral Combat Ship for the U.S. Navy. A keel laying ceremony of the USS Wichita took place Monday at Marinette’s facility in Wisconsin and Kate Staples Lehrer, an author and a ship sponsor, signed her initials into […] More

Lockheed Martin is seeking foreign demand for its Littoral Combat Ship program as the Navy’s USS Freedom was set rotate to through Singapore on Thursday. That LCS ship departed from San Diego on March 1 and was scheduled to stop in Singapore for eight months with 91 people on board, Reuters reports. Navy officials have […] More

Lockheed Martin has announced it is offering its  multi-mission combatant to Navies across the globe.  The design is based on Lockheed’s littoral combat ship of which the U.S. Navy has two in its fleet, two more in production and two others under contract. According to the company statement, the multi-mission combat is an agile and modular vessel that can go […] More

Northrop Grumman has developed a pulse generation system for the company’s simulation products that used to replicate combat electromagnetic environments. The Advanced Pulse Generator is built with a direct digital synthesizer for creating radio frequency waveforms and is intended for laboratories, anechoic chambers and military testing facilities, Northrop said Monday. Joe Downie, a site director at […] More

Northrop Grumman plans to offer foreign upgrade customers a new radar based on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter“™s APG-81 active electronically scanned array combined with Scalable Agile Beam Radar receiver, exciter and processors (REP), reported Dave Majumdar for Flighglobal.com on Tuesday. Patrick Antkowiak, vice president of the company“™s advanced concepts and technologies division, […] More

GitLab has promoted Joel Krooswyk from his role as senior manager of solutions architecture to the company’s newly created position of federal chief technology officer. Krooswyk will aim to expand business relationships between the DevSecOps platform provider and software development professionals in the federal sector, GitLab said Monday. The 25-year software industry veteran joined the […] More

The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office has awarded BWX Technologies a potential $300 million contract to construct a nuclear microreactor. BWXT is expected to have the Project Pele full-scale transportable microreactor prototype, the first of its kind in the U.S., ready for the Idaho National Laboratory’s review by 2024, the Lynchburg, Virginia-based company said Thursday. Joe Miller, […] More