Reporter: Navy/Missile Defense
Defense Daily
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Rich Abott
Articles By Richard
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Missile DefenseGAO Finds MDA Had Numerous Warnings About RKV Issues, Costs Tripled
According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) was warned numerous times about problems with the now-canceled Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) program as costs […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Certifies Second Ford Magazine Elevator
The Navy said Thursday the sixth overall and second lower stage Advanced Weapons Elevator (AWE) on the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) was certified on schedule on July 22. This […]
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Delivers First SPY-6 Radar Array For DDG-125
Raytheon Technologies [RTX] delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array for the first Flight III DDG-51 destroyer, the company said Tuesday. The SPY-6 radar system is also known as the Air […]
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Navy/USMCTop INDO-PACOM Priority To Add Aegis Ashore To Guam By 2026
The head of Indo-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) on Tuesday said getting an Aegis Ashore missile defense system on Guam by 2026 is his number one priority to help defend against future […]
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Business/FinancialHII Reorganizes Technical Solutions Business
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Technical Solutions division on Tuesday said it was reorganizing two of its business groups into a new combined Defense and Federal Solutions Group. The division combined […]
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Navy/USMCGeurts Confident Navy And Hill Can Work Out USV Balance
The Navy’s top acquisition official said he thinks the Navy will work out unmanned vessel development disagreements with Congress and said they have to strike the right balance on development […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin Nabs $762 Million Mod For Redirected Turkish And Air Force F-35s
The Navy on Monday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] an $862 million contract modification exercising options to procure 14 Lot 14 F-35A Joint Strike Fighters, including redirected aircraft originally planned for […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Raytheon $126 Million Mod For Radars Units
Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a $126 million modification to exercise options to produce six more Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) low rate initial production (LRIP) units. […]
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Navy/USMCLHD-6 Fire Out, Investigations Next
All the fires on the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) were declared out by July 16, after four days of firefighting throughout the amphibious assault ship and with investigations set to […]
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Navy/USMCGAO Explains NGREN-R Protest Denials
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the full decisions denying two protests of Leidos’ [LDOS] win of the Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) Service Management, Integration and Transportation […]