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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCSmith Argues For LAW Capabilities And Explains Bridge Experimentation
The Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps this week explained why the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) capabilities are needed and what the service hopes to learn from experimenting with commercial […]
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Navy/USMCRaven: Navy Must Work With Industry To Balance Supply Chain Issues And Accountability
The number two civilian at the Department of the Navy on Wednesday said the government needs to balance the constraints and stress the defense industrial base is under with accountability […]
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Navy/USMCSuper Hornet Conducts First LITENING Pod Test Flight
The Navy recently conducted the first successful test flights of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING targeting pods on the Boeing [BA] F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the company said on Wednesday. […]
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Unmanned SystemsBoeing Simulates Virtual MQ-25 Open Architecture Manned-Unmannned Teaming
Boeing [BA] recently conducted a digital simulation of an open autonomy architecture to have manned Navy aircraft control MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tankers, the company said on Tuesday. In this […]
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Navy/USMCWhite House Nominating Head Of DOT&E As Navy Acquisition Chief
The White House on Sept. 2 announced it intended to nominate the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) to be the next Navy acquisition chief. Nickolas Guertin, head of […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Aerial Targets Reach Full Capability With Intercept Test
The Kratos [KTOS] BQM-177A next-generation subsonic aerial target (SSAT) for the Navy reached full operational capability (FOC) on Aug. 28 with a missile intercept test during an international exercise in […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Cites Reasons For Ditching DART Sonar For LCS, Frigate
A Navy official this week cited technical challenges as the reason behind the Navy’s decision to cancel development work on Raytheon Technologies’ [RTX] AN/SQS-62 Variable Depth Sonar for use on […]
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Navy/USMCHII Awarded $42 Million For DDG-1002 Combat Systems Activation
The Navy awarded HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding [HII] a $42 million contract modification to start combat systems activation work on the future Zumwalt-class destroyer USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002). This modification […]
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Navy/USMCFincantieri Starts Construction on First New Frigate
Fincantieri Marinette Marine is starting construction on the first Constellation-class frigate, the future USS Constellation (FFG-62), on Wednesday at its Marinette, Wis., shipyard after getting the go-ahead from the Navy […]
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Missile DefenseBoeing Wins $5 Billion Contract For GMD SITR Work
The Missile Defense Agency on Tuesday awarded Boeing [BA] a $5 billion five-year contract for the system integration, test, and readiness (SITR) work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, […]
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