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Administration Announces Actions To Scale Renewable Energy And Storage For Military Facilities

Friday, June 17th, 2016

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Administration Announces Actions To Scale Renewable Energy And Storage For Military Facilities

The White House on Thursday announced new executive actions, including those at military facilities, to accelerate integration of renewable energy and storage into the electric grid.The Navy and Air Force in particular announced three specific new projects and activities each as part of this administration effort, the White House said in a fact sheet.The Navy will begin a new 50-11 MW grid-scale battery project to be developed by a third-party developer at the Naval Weapons Seal Beach, Calif.; a new…

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]