COVID-19
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Navy/USMCNavy Hosting Limited RIMPAC With At-Sea Events Only Due To Pandemic
The Navy will sponsor a modified Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in August, limiting it to at-sea-only events due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns. The biennial 27th RIMPAC will last […]
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COVID-19Navy Pushed $600 Million Into Shipbuilding Industry Base For Pandemic Response
The Navy’s top acquisition official said the Navy recently infused about $600 million into the shipbuilding industrial base by reducing withholds and retainers to help it deal with COVID-19 pandemic […]
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COVID-19ONR Announces $30 Million In Small Business Funding, Plans $250 Million Over 90 Days
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Monday announcing $30 million in funding opportunities in search of dual Navy and commercial technologies and also announced […]
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COVID-19Navy Works To Accelerate Aircraft Engines Buys Amid Commercial Slowdown
The Navy is looking to buy aircraft engines and conduct aviation work faster than planned to take advantage of the slowdown in the commercial sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
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COVID-19NNSA Seeking N95 Respirators for Workforce; Chinese-made Equivalents Okay
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) gave a small business in Georgia a roughly $240,000 fixed-price contract to provide almost a quarter-million, China-made N95-style respirator masks for its contractor and […]
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COVID-19MDA Flight Tests Affected By Pandemic, SM-3 IIA ICBM Test Delayed
Most of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) flight tests planned for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 will be affected by Defense Department measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 […]
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Navy/USMCVirginia Lawmakers Push Navy To Accelerate LHA-9
Virginia’s congressional delegation wrote the Navy’s top acquisition official last week pushing the service to accelerate work on the LHA-9 amphibious assault ship and other measures to help shipyards during […]
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PentagonDoD Expecting Three-Month Delays for Major Acquisition Programs
The Pentagon is anticipating that many of its major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs) will be delayed by about three months due to facility closures, supply chain issues and other impacts […]
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Navy Pushing Out Contracts 32 Percent Faster
The Navy’s top acquisition official on Thursday said as of last week the Navy pushed out contracts 32 percent faster than last year as it works to mitigate effects from […]
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COVID-19Energy Dept. HQ Employee Dies of COVID-19
A employee at Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, D.C., has died from COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Tuesday. News of the he death, the first confirmed COVID-19 […]