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Navy/USMCNavy Releases List Of 39 Ships To Decommission In 2023
The Navy released its annual inactivation schedule message last week, listing 29 ships it plans to inactivate and decommission in fiscal year 2023, barring intervention from Congress. The list includes […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Trainer Aircraft Crashes In Texas
A Navy T-45C Goshawk trainer jet aircraft crashed on Aug. 16 in Texas, the service said Tuesday, at least the third such crash in the region in under two years. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Finishes Pacific Dragon Exercise, Included SM-3 Intercept Test
The U.S. Navy completed the biennial Pacific Dragon 2022 exercise off the coast of Hawaii this week, which included a Standard Missile (SM-3) intercept test. This multinational air and missile […]
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Missile DefenseMDA: NGI Can Only Move So Fast, PDRs In Second Half of 2023
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) recently noted that while the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) competition is proceeding well, the agency is limited in how […]
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Missile DefenseHill: ‘High Confidence’ Long-Delayed Poland Aegis Ashore Operational By 2023
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) last week said the agency is now confident the Poland Aegis Ashore site will be operational by next year. […]
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ArmyArmy Official Asks Industry For Help In Inflation, Supply Chain Problems
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – An Army official this week asked industry to work with the government to help mitigate inflation and supply chain issues impacting military procurement. “We are in probably […]
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Navy/USMCTextron Loses MCM USV Protest
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Textron Systems’ [TXT] protest of the Navy’s Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MCM USV) contract, worth up to $123 million, the office said Aug. […]
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Missile DefenseNORTHCOM: LRDR Months Away From Plugging In
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) plans for the Long Range Discrimination Radar to be operational and connected to the larger missile defense operational architecture within months, Brig. Gen. […]
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Missile DefenseLockheed Martin Tests NGI Comms Technology
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Aug. 8 it recently validated a prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI). The company said it demonstrated the […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Receives First Next Gen Jammer Mid-Band Test Pods
Last month the Navy received the first Raytheon Technologies [RTX] Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) production-representative pods for use in Navy testing at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) […]
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