Edward J. Walsh

Northrop Grumman’s Naval and Oceanic Systems group is implementing software changes and upgrades to the Navy’s Electronic Chart Display and Information System.

Raytheon’s Missiles and Defense business unit is collaborating with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) for systems integration for the SPY-6(v) radar.

The MQ-8B entered Navy service in 2006. It operates today on board littoral combat ships in conjunction with manned MH-60S helicopters.

The Navy and Marine Corps have long considered the LCAC a critical cog in the Sea Services’ amphibious warfare machine.

Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding delivered the Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28), the 12th San Antonio- class amphibious transport dock, in March.

An industry team led by L3Harris Technologies is working toward a December target for completing construction of a prototype medium unmanned surface vehicle.

Raytheon Technologies’ Missiles and Defense unit, longtime builder of the Tomahawk precision-strike standoff cruise missile, is recertifying the current inventory of Block IV missiles and upgrading them.

Flight III represents a near bow-to-stern transformation of the Arleigh Burke design.

Lockheed Martin Mission and Rotary Systems is working with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries to prepare for initial lightoff of the Aegis combat system.

The Navy recently established what it calls a “software factory ecosystem”—dubbed “the Forge”—a physical site for an effort that also will be virtual, engaging numerous contractors.

Raytheon Technologies has won Navy funding of about $17 million in a modification to a contract for continuing engineering services.

The Navy aims to install HELIOS unit after years of researching lasers to advance ship defense against surface craft, aircraft, antiship missiles, and unmanned vehicles.