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Dan Parsons
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Navy/USMCOnly V-22 Can Ferry Spare Engines To F-35s Aboard Navy Carriers
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Without the V-22 Osprey to deliver spare engines, nations buying the naval version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be able to deploy them […]
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Navy/USMCMarines Seeking Foreign Buyers To Extend H-1 Production Line Out To 2030s
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Having nearly fielded its planned fleet of upgraded attack and utility helicopters, the Marine Corps is seeking foreign buyers to keep the Bell [TXT] H-1 production […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Nearing Multi-Year Destroyer Contract That Ramps Production To Three Ships Per Year
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Navy is nearing a multi-year procurement deal for Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers that would take production out to fiscal 2022 and ramp production back […]
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PentagonDoD Research Chief: Acquisition Rules Threaten U.S. Military Might
The U.S. military will not prevail in highly-technical future wars without escaping the burdensome bureaucracy that marks the World War II-era acquisition system, according Undersecretary of Defense for Research and […]
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UncategorizedDefense Watch: Defense Hearings, BAE Protest, More on Boeing’s MQ-25
Trump Troops. President Trump, who recently ordered the Department of Defense to deploy the National Guard to help secure the southern U.S. border, told reporters aboard Air Force One on April […]
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ArmyEsper: Army Will Kill Old Programs To Fund Big Six Modernization Priorities
Senior Army leaders are now meeting monthly to review major acquisition programs and prioritize them, a new policy which likely will result in wholesale program cancellations so their funding can […]
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ArmyArmy Missile, Truck Program Costs Jump $14 Billion While Network Drops $8 Billion
Three Army acquisition programs increased more than $1 billion each in 2017 while a canceled program drew attention for a dramatic decrease in program cost because it has been effectively […]
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ArmyA Common Denominator For Army Modernization Goals: Modular, Open-Architecture Systems
If the Army’s diverse set of modernization priorities share anything in common, it is that the scientists and engineers working to achieve those capabilities are taking a modular, open-systems approach […]
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Harris Delivers Version Of Two-Channel SOCOM Radio To Big Army
Harris Corp. [HRS] has introduced a new advanced two-channel handheld radio, based on one the company already builds for Special Operations Command, that simultaneously delivers voice and data networking to the […]
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Two Companies Share $400 Million Army Robot Development Contract
Two companies will share in a nearly half-billion-dollar contract for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of one the Army’s three future ground robot programs of record. QinetiQ North […]