http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2010 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:58:58 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Called before Congress to explain delays and cost growth with Lockheed Martin's [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Pentagon officials said yesterday the aircraft's initial operational capability (IOC) for the Air Force and Navy will be... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9587.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein While the submarine program continues to rapidly insert commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies to modernize the fleet, officials are also making sure the schoolhouses not only have the latest versions of equipment, but are providing the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9581.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is kicking off a shipbuilding industrial base study to review the capabilities and capacities at U.S. shipyards to better inform the service as it crafts its next budget. The forthcoming study is intended to "get to the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9559.html Mon, 8 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The Navy yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] $14.9 million and Northrop Grumman [NOC] $17.4 million contracts for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system, a directed approach to reduce infrastructure and... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9548.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The USS Freedom (LCS-1) returned to duty Wednesday after making repairs to one of two downed ship service diesel generators (SSDG) during a scheduled refueling stop in Panama, the Navy said. Sometime before March 1, Freedom lost two of its... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9551.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein As the Navy and the shipbuilding industry prepare to move toward producing two Virginia-class submarines per year, all eyes are looking ahead to the next-generation ballistic missile boomer. The submarine industrial base has to keep up the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9552.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Emelie Rutherford The Senate confirm the nominations of six senior Pentagon officials last night after senators who blocked their final approval released their holds. The nominees, selected by President Barack Obama, are: Frank Kendall III to be principal... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9556.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein As the Marine Corps continues to make a case for sea basing, service officials can point to the ongoing humanitarian assistance operations in Haiti as proof that the concept works. Last week, Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway told members of... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9539.html Thu, 4 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The General Dynamics [GD] variant of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) uses less fuel per hour during higher rates of speed than the Lockheed Martin [LMT] vessel, according to a Navy document. The one-page LCS Consumption Curves shows that both... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9486.html Tue, 2 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon "continues to explore" entering into a multi-year contract with Boeing [BA] for F/A-18 fighter jets, but was not able to make a decision by yesterday's congressional deadline, according to the deputy defense... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9492.html Tue, 2 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST CACI [CACI], Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC], G2 Software Systems Inc., Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] were each awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) award from the Navy to provide command and... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9493.html Tue, 2 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) last week questioned the top leadership of the Navy as to whether the evaluation criteria being used to select a winner in the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) competition is fair and adequately addresses the importance of... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9474.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Emelie Rutherford Military officials sought to alleviate congressional concerns yesterday about the Pentagon relying in the future on one main contractor for tactical aircraft, pointing to planning for future sixth-generation fighters and ongoing... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9452.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The Navy is working to meet a Monday deadline to inform Congress of plans to pursue a multi-year buy of Boeing [BA] F/A-18E/F Super Hornets that could help to fill some of the service's strike fighter gap, according to a lawmaker. Under section... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9457.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Aluminum multi-hull ships are more energy efficient than a steel monohull ship, an Austal USA official said yesterday at a naval energy conference. "Multi-hulls by their nature are more propulsion efficient. The long slender hulls have much... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9444.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein For FY '11, the Navy has outlined three unfunded requests totaling $532 million for aviation spares, and aviation and ship maintenance. "Although these unfunded requirements are not of higher priority than anything contained in the Navy's... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9430.html Tue, 23 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The Navy will deploy the USS Freedom (LCS-1) this week to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) to conduct counter narcotics and theater security cooperation operations. Freedom is the first of the Navy's new Littoral... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9353.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The next award phase for the Navy's future jammer will be a technology development phase that will include a competitive prototype, according to a service official Almost every program now is moving toward competitive prototyping, Capt John... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9328.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Emelie Rutherford With the military services' fiscal year 2011 budget hearings set to kick off this week, lawmakers are sorting through claims and data regarding whether there is a solid business case for extending the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9319.html Tue, 9 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Although the Navy has a history of operating in a network environment, working in the cyber domain presents a unique set of challenges for the service, according to the Chief of Naval Operations. "We in the Navy live constantly in a network... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/9312.html Fri, 5 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST