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Rich Abott
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Missile DefenseArmy Plans To Take Over THAAD Program In 2027
A top Army acquisition official this week said the Army is planning to assume control over the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system by next year. While […]
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Navy/USMCPalladyne AI Nabs Navy Contract For Air-Launched Near Hypersonic Missile
Pallayne Corp. [PDYN] on Wednesday announced its GuideTech subsidiary recently won a Navy contract to develop a new lower cost air-launched, near hypersonic long-range missile, the Air-Launched Rapid Response Missile […]
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Navy/USMCNavy To Increase Hammerhead Mine Orders
The Navy last week announced plans to award General Dynamics [GD] Mission Systems a contract modification to increase Hammerhead anti-submarine mine orders. Notably, according to a Naval Sea Systems Command […]
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Missile DefenseGuetlein Names Golden Dome C2 Primes, Adds $10 Billion To Total Cost
The director of the Golden Dome program Tuesday named the three prime contractors working on the Golden Dome command and control (C2) “glue layer” and revealed the program’s expected total […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Eyes Another Three to Five PAEs, Aims To Minimize Direct Reporting PMs
When Navy officials announced the establishment of five more Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) organizations as part of an acquisition reform effort, they also previewed plans to stand up three more […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Establishes Five More PAEs As Key Part Of Acquisition Reform
The Navy on Monday announced the establishment of five more Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) organizations as part of the service’s efforts to make the PAE model the “new operational standard […]
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Navy/USMC“We Can Do A Lot:” Fincantieri Sees LSMs As Way Back To Serial Production, Could Start Production This Year
In the wake of the Navy cancelling the Constellation-class frigate, Fincantieri Marine Group sees its selection to be a builder of the Medium Landing Ship (LSM) as a road back […]
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Missile DefenseRTX Wins $267 Million To Restart SM-3 IB Line, Deliver 23 Interceptors
While DoD had planned to end procurement of the Standard Missile-3 Block IB (SM-3 IB), the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded RTX [RTX] a $267 million contract modification on March […]
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InternationalSecond Japanese SPY-7 Aegis Radar Shipset Done, Lockheed Martin Says
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Thursday announced the delivery of the second Aegis Systems Equipped Vessel (ASEV) shipset of AN/SPY-7(V)1 radar panels to Japanese government control. This follows the company’s July […]
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Navy/USMCAnduril Nabs First Spot In DIU’s XLUUV Prototype Effort, Aims To Avoid Orca Pitfalls
Anduril Industries on Thursday announced it was selected for the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform Project (CAMP) and will begin a long-duration demonstration of its Dive-XL autonomous […]
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