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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCNavy Submitted Proposal To Decouple Used And New Sealift Buys
A Navy official confirmed Wednesday the service submitted a legislative proposal that would decouple the Navy from having to buy new auxiliary vessels in order to also buy used sealift […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Canceling DDG-51 Class Extension Due To Funding, May Walk Back
The Navy may reverse itself again and re-institute a class-wide service life extension of DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers if it gets the funding, the Navy’s top procurement official told a […]
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UncategorizedNavy Not Extending All DDG-51 Destroyers Anymore, Officials Say
Last week, top Navy leaders told Congress they no longer plan to extend the service lives of all DDG-51 Aegis-class destroyers to reach 355 ships. “Service life extensions can be […]
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Navy/USMCPerspecta Follows GD In Protesting Leidos’ NGEN-R SMIT Win, Work Paused
This week Perspecta filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over Leidos’ [LDOS] win of the Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) contract. According to the GAO […]
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UncategorizedTextron Says First Ship-to-Shore Connector Delivered in February
Textron Systems [TXT] on Tuesday said it delivered the first Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) next-generation air cushion vehicle, LCAC-100, in February. The company said before delivery “Craft 100 underwent integrated testing […]
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Navy/USMCModly Launches Six-Month Future Carrier Task Force Study
Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly is commissioning a six-month study to examine the future of the aircraft carrier and carrier-based naval aviation in 2030 and beyond. The Blue-Ribbon […]
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Missile DefenseHill: NGI Has Flexibility In Development Cycle, Replaces Whole Interceptor
The head of the Missile Defense Agency last week said the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) program will have flexibility in its development cycle and emphasized it will replace the entire […]
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Missile DefenseFirst 10 LRDR Panels Delivered To MDA Alaska Facility
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has delivered the first 10 Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) antenna panels to the Missile Defense Agency’s facility in Clear, Alaska, the company said this week. The […]
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Navy/USMCCNO Argues Retiring First 4 LCSs Saves $2 Billion In Upgrades
SAN DIEGO– The Navy’s top officer said the decision to retire the first four Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) saves the Navy from spending $2 billion in upgrading them to the […]
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Navy/USMCBoeing Wins $800 Million Mod For P-8A Work
The Navy on Friday awarded Boeing [BA] an $800 million advanced acquisition modification contract to procure long lead material and activities to support Lot 11 P-8A Poseidon aircraft production and […]