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Rich Abott
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CyberMDA Plans Cyber Support Contract
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) intends to issue a solicitation to procure cybersecurity compliance and risk management services to support MDA and the Office of Chief Information Officer, according to […]
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Navy/USMCCNO Says Divesting Legacy Systems Is An Imperative
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) last week repeated pleas to industry to stop lobbying Congress for platforms the Defense Department wants to divest from and called the Navy’s efforts […]
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Navy/USMCCNO: Navy Needs Over 500 Ships For Strategy
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) last week said he believes a fleet of over 500 ships is needed for the Navy to meet its commitments and the defense strategy […]
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Navy/USMCSubmarine Maintenance Delays Lowering Inventory Use For Operations
The Navy’s attack submarine (SSN) force is at a low point that is worsened by a backlog in maintenance and that technological development work is taking too long, a top […]
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Navy/USMCNavy’s V-22 Osprey Achieves IOC
The CMV-22B, the Navy’s variant of the Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, formally achieved initial operational capability (IOC) last December, the service said Feb. 18. The Navy’s announcement came with at the […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin Developing Protoype 5G Comms For The Marine Corps
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said the Defense Department awarded it a $19.3 million contract to create a prototype 5G communications network testbed for experimentation in expeditionary operations at U.S. Marine Corps […]
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Navy/USMCSikorsky Wins $372 Million Contract For Four Israel CH-53K Helicopters
The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky [LMT] a $372 million modification to produce and deliver four low-rate initial production Lot 6 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for Israel. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy AARGM-ER Missile Completes Second Flight Test
The Navy last month successfully completed the second flight test of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AGM-88 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER). In the test, the Navy launched an […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Christens First Snakehead Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
The Navy christened the first Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype on Feb. 2 at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility in Newport, R.I. The event was led by […]
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Navy/USMCGAO Reports Navy Has Limited And Flawed Collection Of Intermediate Maintenance Data
A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found the Navy collects only limited data on intermediate maintenance periods on its ships and does not analyze the data it does have. […]
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