Navy, Marine Corps chiefs hammer amphib readiness in back-to-back addresses
At Modern Day Marine, Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby acknowledged he "owes" the Marine Corps a three-ship Amphibious Ready Group.
Marines undergo ‘big cultural shift’ in hopes of more flexible budget
The change in the Marines' budgeting approach comes as other services in recent years have been readjusting their budgeting processes in an effort to get Congress to let them have larger, more flexible pots of money.
No ‘bank shots’: Marine Corps chief tells industry to keep pitches focused on Marines’ needs
“I’m interested in buying what I need, not buying what you’re selling,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said at the Modern Day Marine exposition.
Marines’ first Landing Ship Medium slated to take 4-5 years to build
“We want it faster than that, but I think that that's the realistic timeline in which the shipbuilders can make it,” said Lt. Gen. Eric Austin, the Marine Corps's top requirements officer.
V-22 will fly with restrictions until 2026
“We had some learning in the middle,” said V-22 Program Manager Marine Corps Col. Robert Hurst, “and that learning in the middle took us from the summer of ‘25 to start in the spring of ‘26.”
Polaris begins producing new MRZR Alpha baseline vehicle with 1 kilowatt of exportable power
The company has also produced a five-kilowatt version of the vehicle that is more suitable for "power hungry" systems, explained John LaFata, Polaris’s chief engineer.
Marine Corps official floats modular mission payloads for new heavy lift helo
“How can we make this kind of truck … be more than just a truck?” said Col. Kate Fleeger, the Marines' CH-53K program manager.
Marines special ops focus on data at the edge, FPV drones in the air and AI on the way
The battlefield may be more complex than ever, but if a war breaks out, MARSOC's commander said frontline fighting will be "rough and brutal" like WWII.
Defense tech company Epirus delivers counter-drone swarms to Navy
The tech was delivered to a Navy warfare center and has been previously picked up by the US Army.
DOGE-related workforce cuts have left the Navy with a ‘big challenge,’ CIO says
“In some cases, we lost some people that we wanted to lose, but we lost some people that we didn't want to lose," CIO of the Department of the Navy Jane Rathbun said.