ARLINGTON, Va. — Raytheon is building prototypes of a small torpedo that is designed to attack hostile submarines and defend the U.S. Navy’s submarines from incoming torpedoes. The Compact Rapid Attack Weapon (CRAW) is designed to be launched from a…
Fleet Forces Commander: Surface Warships Need to be ‘Plug and Play’
****** ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy’s surface combatants need to be able to operate independently but also integrate with a strike group seamlessly, the admiral in charge of setting fleet doctrine said. The Navy needs “to capitalize on our…
Fleet Forces Commander Scolds Weapons Industry for Supply Chain Woes
******* ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy’s admiral who sets manning, training, and equipping the fleet scolded the weapons industry in a blistering response to a question from an audience of naval personnel and defense industry officials about delays in delivery…
Surface Navy Boss Sets Goal of 75 Mission-Capable Ships on Any Day
******* ARLINGTON, Va. — The type commander of the Navy’s surface combatant fleet has set a goal of sustaining a fleet of 75 mission-capable (MC) ships. “We’ve come up with a North Star goal to drive all of our readiness…
Navy’s SPY-6 Radar to Reach Initial Operational Capability in 4th Quarter Fiscal 2024
************ ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy’s new SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar is scheduled to reach Initial Operational Capability (IOC) during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, a Raytheon official said. The radar, which first went to sea…
Congress Orders Report on Plan for Future of Navy’s Expeditionary EA-18G Squadrons
ARLINGTON, Va. — Congress rejected the U.S. Navy’s 2023 budget proposal to deactivate five electronic attack squadrons (VAQs) that operate the Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack jet in the defense policy bill recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. Instead,…
Navy Orders Fourth Lot of TH-73A Thrasher Training Helicopters
ARLINGTON, Va.—The U.S. Navy has exercised a contract option to order a fourth lot of Leonardo TH-73A Thrasher training helicopters. Leonardo said in a Dec. 24 release that it was awarded a $110 million firm, fixed-price contract modification through AgustaWestland…
Capt. Shea S. Thompson Commodore, Surface Development Squadron One (SURFDEVRON 1)
A native of San Marcos, California, Thompson received his commission from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1997. His sea tours included USS George Philip (FFG 12), USS Cape St. George (CG 71), and USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53). He served…
Muslim Civil Rights Group Protests Name ‘Fallujah’ for U.S. Navy Ship
ARLINGTON, Va. — A Muslim civil rights group is protesting the U.S. Navy’s selection of the name “Fallujah” as the name of a future amphibious assault ship. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), self-described as the nation’s largest Muslim civil…
Marine Corps Adds Cherry Point Squadron to F-35B Operators
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Marine Corp is converting another AV-8B Harrier II attack squadron to F-35B Lightning II strike fighters, the first F-3B fleet squadron to be based on the East Coast. Marine Attack Squadron 542 (VMA-542) — the Tigers…
