Anello Photonics, a leading firm in silicon photonics technology, has been awarded a contract by the US Navy to develop a cutting-edge navigation system to help hypersonic vehicles operate even in GPS ...

WASHINGTON – Residents of Hanalei Bay on the Hawaiian island of Kauai woke up last weekend to a distressing sight: As many as 200 melon-headed whales, a small and sociable species that usually stays ...

In a Navy-vs.-whales case watched closely by environmentalists from California to the Puget Sound area, President Bush on Wednesday exempted the Navy from some environmental laws. The fight is over ...

The Navy is researching a new technology that could help sailors and Marines navigate in places where the Global Positioning System just doesn’t work. Unlike GPS signals, cosmic ray muons are a ...

LOS ANGELES – A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday barring the Navy from using a particular sonar allegedly harmful to marine mammals during a Pacific warfare exercise that ...

Although the US Navy is planning to bring drones online to aid in many of the Seahawk’s functions, the rugged helicopter will endure in the service for years to come.

Environmental groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit on Monday morning against the Navy and the National Marine Fisheries Service over a permit allowing the Navy to ...

The Navy is refusing to detail its sonar use for a federal court in a case involving potential harm to whales, saying the information could jeopardize national security. Complying with a federal judge ...

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The Navy is forbidden to use an intense form of sonar -- known to have spooked Puget Sound orcas in the past -- during combat exercises this month in the Pacific, a federal judge ruled Monday.