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The U.S. Navy announced its Super Hornet and Growler fleets have achieved 80 percent combat readiness goals set last year by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, improving from 50 percent at that time....Read More

The U.S. Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries individual contracts for work on the USS Helena and USS Columbus, which includes repairs, maintenance, upgrades and modernization efforts....Read More

Federal and local authorities are investigating four recent suicides aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, including three in the last week and one in July....Read More

Raytheon has been awarded more than $500 million in a modified contract for research and development of two types of advanced surveillance radar systems....Read More

An Afghan police officer fired on a NATO coalition convoy in Kandahar province on Monday, leaving three U.S. soldiers with non-life-threatening injuries....Read More

The U.S. Navy announced the completion of a mine countermeasures system test in Chesapeake Bay, Md....Read More

Orbital Sciences Corp. received a $1.1 billion contract with the Missile Defense Agency for missile defense targets, which are used in military exercises to simulate ballistic missile attacks....Read More

NATO announced that its new command, designed to quickly move tanks and personnel around Europe, is operational....Read More

Israeli fighter planes returned home Friday after their first deployment to Britain for air exercises with the United States and European countries....Read More

Raytheon and the Navy completed a test of the Ship Self Defense System Integrated Combat System on the first of a new class of carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford....Read More