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Rich Abott
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WeaponsUrsa Major Wins Contracts For Navy Solid Rocket Motor Development
Ursa Major on Monday announced it won $137 million in two contracts from the Pentagon to develop solid rocket motors (SRMs) for the Compact Air-to-Air Missile (CAAM) and the Naval […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin Nabs $245 Million Mod For Second IRST Block II Order
The U.S. Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $245 million modification to procure a second full rate production order of the F/A-18E/F Infrared Search and Track (IRST) 21 Block […]
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Navy/USMCAnduril To Start New Baltimore Shipyard For Sub Parts With $3.7 Billion Investment
Anduril Industries and the White House on Tuesday announced plans for a new 2 million square foot shipbuilding facility in Maryland that will be focused on producing Virginia-class attack submarine […]
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WeaponsBoeing Awarded $14.7 Billion Contract For PAC-3 MSE Seekers To Match Framework Agreement
Boeing [BA] on Monday announced it won a $14.7 billion undefinitized contract action from Lockheed Martin [LMT] to boost its production of Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) […]
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Navy/USMCSkillman Nominated As VCNO, Mahan Moved From Acting Navy Acquisition Chief To Temporary Under Secretary
Vice Adm. Brad Skillman was nominated by the Trump administration to become the next Vice Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on Sept 29 on the same day acting Secretary of […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards RTX $24.4 Billion Contract To Accelerate SM-6 Production
The Defense Department on Thursday announced a new five-year $24.4 billion Navy award to RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon business unit to accelerate production of the ship-based Standard Missile (SM)-6 anti-air and […]
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Navy/USMCBlackbeard Flight Tested On Super Hornet
The Navy recently successfully finished a flight test of the Castelion Blackbeard air-longed hypersonic missile from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., another step in […]
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Navy/USMCDIU And Navy Award Three MCM Modernization Prize Winners
The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Department of the Navy Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Robotic and Autonomous Systems (DRPM RAS) on Thursday announced BeeX, AEVEX Corp.’s [AVEX] […]
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Navy/USMCU.S. and U.K. Sink Decommissioned Frigate In Missile And Torpedo Test
U.S. and U.K. forces sank the decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate ex-USS Klakring in Exercise Atlantic Thunder in the North Atlantic last week, the U.S. Navy recently announced. This […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Takes Partial Acceptance of CVN-79 Carrier, HII Nabs CVN-75 Midlife Overhaul Contract
The Navy on Tuesday announced it took “preliminary acceptance” of the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) aircraft carrier from HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) to work on testing […]
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