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Market Sectors :: Navy/USMC
Displaying 1 - 20 of 1018 stories.
September 2, 2010
By Geoff Fein Bids for the Navy's Integrated Topside (InTop) task order 3 competition, exploring how to combine apertures and antennas on surface ships, were turned in last week, and companies are hoping for a contract award by the end of the year. Among...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/ONR-Gets-InTop-Task-Order-3-Bids_11200.html September 1, 2010
By Geoff Fein Addressing the technical challenges associated with the Navy's Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) has led the service to implement design changes during the construction phase of LCS- 3 and -4 that could hinder shipbuilders from applying lessons...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Overcoming-Issues-With-LCS-Could-Hinder-Ability-To-Apply-Lessons-Learned_11194.html September 1, 2010
By Geoff Fein The Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] effort to develop the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) for the Army and Navy had a successful second test flight of its weapon. The second test held earlier in August demonstrated the missile's...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Raytheon-Boeing-JAGM-Team-Two-For-Two-In-Government-Test-Shots_11196.html August 31, 2010
By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to look at buying technologies to protect its networks, in particular those aboard ships, officials face a number of challenges ranging from the pace of acquisition to ensuring interoperability and compatibility. In July, the...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/New-Navy-Organization-Taking-On-Cyber-Defense-Acquisition_11160.html August 26, 2010
By Geoff Fein Since bringing together all of its shipyards under one roof, Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding has pulled together its supplier base under a single vice president to further drive savings and efficiencies at its facilities. What the company is...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/NGSB-Looks-To-Achieve-Efficiencies-Through-Consolidation-of-Supplier-Base_11125.html August 25, 2010
By Geoff Fein Northrop Grumman [NOC] is taking an unusual approach to its Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System (CANES) effort by offering up all of its data rights to the Navy, according to a company official. "We are giving them unlimited data...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Northrop-Grumman-Providing-Unlimited-Data-Rights-In-CANES-Effort_11117.html August 25, 2010
By Geoff Fein For the first time the Navy has acknowledged that it will likely not meet its goal of awarding a contract for 10 Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) this summer as the service continues to seek additional information from both competing teams...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Navy-Wont-Make-LCS-Award-Before-Fall-Awaits-Further-Industry-Responses_11120.html August 24, 2010
By Geoff Fein The two teams competing for the Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) contract are both taking different approaches to how they look to reduce infrastructure and increase capability across surface ship networks...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Experience-Helping-Drive-Lockheed-Martins-CANES-Effort_11104.html August 17, 2010
By Geoff Fein While the Navy is developing communication buoys to enable submarines to pass data while at speed and depth, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort is demonstrating the feasibility to use lasers to achieve the same objective...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Navy-DARPA-Effort-Using-Lasers-For-Sub-Comms-At-Speed-And-Depth_11035.html August 13, 2010
By Emelie Rutherford A House panel is continuing to fight back Pentagon attempts to take away already-pegged-for Army vehicle upgrades. The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) in an Aug. 10 letter denied the Defense Department's request to remove $143.2...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Panel-Blocks-DoD-From-Reducing-Funds-For-Vehicle-Upgrades_11017.html August 11, 2010
By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] is touting a new 3G broadband network for the military that will enable any government approved, commercially available smart phone to link in and use the system. The technology, called MONAX, is all about connecting the...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Lockheed-Martin-Develops-Military-3G-Network-For-Smart-Phones_10998.html August 10, 2010
Lockheed Martin [LMT] last week beat out General Dynamics [GD] for an $11.8 million cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus- fixed-fee contract to provide Trident II (D-5)...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Lockheed-Martin-Wins-Trident-II-Shipboard-System-Integration-Work_10977.html August 4, 2010
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) gave a welcome reception yesterday to an influential panel's call for building more Navy ships through the daunting task of increasing Pentagon spending. William Perry, the co-chair of the...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/SASC-Receptive-To-Call-For-Bigger-Navy-Fleet_10949.html August 3, 2010
By Emelie Rutherford An industry group is warning a program the Navy is developing for granting some contractors "preferred supplier" status could inappropriately exclude smaller companies from contract competitions. The Navy has proposed creating a...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Industry-Raises-Concerns-With-Navy-Preferred-Supplier-Proposal_10902.html August 3, 2010
By Geoff Fein The Navy has approved Lockheed Martin's [LMT] preliminary design for the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement (SEWIP) Block 2 upgrade program to defend surface combatants from anti-ship cruise missile threats, the company reported. With...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Lockheed-Martins-SEWIP-Block-2-Completes-PDR-CDR-Set-For-2011_10908.html August 2, 2010
By Geoff Fein Last month's award of the Navy's Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) Tier II contract to Insitu took the company from being a provider of service contracts and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology supplier into the realm of prime...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/STUAS-Award-Makes-A-Prime-Out-of-Insitu_10891.html July 30, 2010
By Geoff Fein The Navy has awarded a $43.7 million contract to Insitu, the makers of ScanEagle, for the long-awaited Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Navy-Awards-Boeings-Insitu-$43-7-Million-For-STUAS-Tier-II-Effort_10882.html July 30, 2010
By Emelie Rutherford The overall size of the defense budget likely needs to be increased to modernize equipment, the heads of an independent panel that critiqued the Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) said yesterday. "We observed that a...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/Independent-QDR-Panel-Modernization-Needs-Call-For-Bigger-DoD-Budget_10883.html July 28, 2010
By Emelie Rutherford The House, via a 308-114 vote, granted final congressional approval yesterday to the long-delayed war-funding bill, after lawmakers agreed to remove much of the domestic spending tacked on to it. The emergency supplemental...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/House-Sends-Obama-War-Supplemental-With-$4-9-Billion-In-Procurement_10860.html July 28, 2010
By Emelie Rutherford A key House panel approved a $523.9 billion Pentagon spending bill yesterday with funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's alternate engine, a move that could bode well for the future of the propulsion program the White House opposes...http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/HAC-D-Overrides-Chairman-DoD-In-Backing-F-35-Second-Engine_10862.html
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