http://www.military.com/News/Home/0,13324,,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS Military Marine Corps News Center Saturday, 04 July 2009 5:58:10 PM http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,194015,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control has won one of two awards from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study and design a Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM). 2009-07-02 http://www.military.com/news/article/marine-corps-news/a-hike-in-the-land-down-under.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS 2009-07-01 http://www.military.com/news/article/marine-corps-news/task-force-east-ready-for-iraq.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS 2009-07-01 http://www.military.com/news/article/marine-corps-news/war-helping-not-hurting.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS 2009-07-01 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,192053,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS A strong argument could be made that the recent innovations in ground-vehicle armor, vehicle-mounted communications and sensor equipment brought about by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the U.S. military is in a "Golden Age" for tactical vehicles. 2009-06-09 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,192138,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS The top Joint Strike Fighter official says he unequivocally supports President Barack Obama's fiscal 2010 budget request, which does not seek funds for a second JSF engine -- but he is still planning for the F136 and suggests Washington consider the risk otherwise. 2009-06-03 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,190905,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS U.S. Navy and Marine Corps leaders faced the House Armed Services Committee to justify their fiscal 2010 budget request a day after a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing how the Navy's approach to shipbuilding lacks the efficiencies that make the commercial process work well. 2009-05-19 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,190548,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was not in the room when the Pentagon unveiled its first budget request under the Obama administration on May 7. But, he did not need to be. His fingerprints are all over its themes of reform and unconventional warfare, as well as its omissions. 2009-05-13 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,190443,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS With an estimated 90 percent of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. passing through Mexico, and claims that many of the weapons seized from drug traffickers and at crime scenes in Mexico come from the U.S., it's obvious that the border between the countries needs more security. 2009-05-12 http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,189718,00.html?ESRC=marinenews.RSS Due to the strains of simultaneously fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan while running other missions around the world, the U.S. Marine Corps is nearly tripling the planned utilization rates of many of its aircraft platforms, Gen. James Amos, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. 2009-04-28