Month: July 2023
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Navy/USMC
Navy Looks To Move Around MQ-25 Funding Due To EMD Delays
The Navy requested Congress let it move hundreds of millions of dollars related to the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft funds for fiscal year 2023 due to delays in […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Plans To Issue EMD Contract For Carrier-Based Hypersonic Weapon In Early 2024
A recent Navy notice said the service intends to conduct a competition for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase for an aircraft carrier-based hypersonic weapon program later this year […]
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Congress
Central DoD Data Repository Critical for Pentagon AI Applications, AI Company Founder Says
Pentagon data centralization is crucial to the future of military artificial intelligence (AI) applications, an AI entrepreneur told a congressional hearing on July 18th. “AI systems are only as good […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Martin Powers To Strong Second Quarter On Aeronautics, Space
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Tuesday posted strong second quarter results driven by strong top and bottom-line gains in its Aeronautics and Space segments and the absence of a pension-related charge […]
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Air Force
USAF Requests End of Funding for New Computer for A-10 and Other Development Efforts
The U.S. Air Force is ending development efforts for the A-10, as the service wants to decommission the service’s more than 200 close air support jets by 2028. Such development […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Nuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad
Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]
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Nuclear Modernization
HASC Vice Chair Says Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile ‘Incredibly Important’
The House version of the 2024 defense authorization act includes funding to develop a nuclear-tipped seal-launched cruise missile, and the program will make it into law despite the White House’s […]
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International
Norway To Supply Ukraine With 1,000 More Teledyne FLIR Black Hornet Nano Drones
Norway has placed an order for 1,000 of Teledyne FLIR’s [TDY] Black Hornet 3 nano drones, which the country will transfer to Ukraine in support of its fight against Russia’s […]
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Navy/USMC
DoD Establishes Navy Science and Technology Board
The Defense Department said Monday it was establishing a new Department of the Navy Science and Technology (DoN S&T) Board in a notice posted to the Federal Register. Secretary of […]
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Navy/USMC
Philly Shipyard To Study New Hospital Ship Designs
Philly Shipyard won a contract to study designs to replace the two current Navy hospital ships by Leidos’ [LDOS] Gibbs & Cox. The award, announced July 12, will entail Philly […]
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