Jeff Martin

Lucas Hicks from Newport News Shipbuilding, provides an update on construction of the USS John. F Kennedy (CVN-79), and the economics of possibly buying the USS Enterprise (CVN-80) and the unnamed CVN-81 together. (Staff)

Two of the Navy’s most important aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the P-8 Poseidon are made by Boeing, and at Sea Air Space 2018, the company provided an update on what’s next for the aircraft. (Staff)

Dr. Jerry Hendrix of the Center for a New American Security, lays out his response to what he sees as the Navy walking back a plan for 355 ships. (Staff)

Fincantieri Marine Group’s CEO explains to Defense News why the company is entering a modified version of the European FREMM frigate in the Navy’s FFG (X) competition. (Staff)

Two Bloomberg analysts sit down with Defense News Weekly host Jeff Martin to talk about the Navy’s MQ-25 program–and the budget issues across the government. (Staff)

Meet two of three candidates to become the Navy’s MQ-25 “Stingray”, which will be an unmanned carrier tanker. Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing are competing. While Boeing declined to be interviewed for this story, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics visited the Defense News studio. (Jeff Martin & Dustin Q. Diaz/Staff)

Naval Warfare reporter David Larter breaks down what he learned during a trip to the Japan-based 7th Fleet, and provides an update on the collision-damaged USS John S McCain. (Jeff Martin & Alan Lessig/Staff)

Go up close with an engineer version of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle or AMPV. (Jeff Martin/Staff)

Land warfare reporter Jen Judson and Jeff Martin break down what they’ve learned about the new Army Futures Command. (Jeff Martin & Alan Lessig/Staff)