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Rich Abott
Articles By Richard
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Navy/USMCMine Warfare Plan Will Double As Certification For MCM Capabilities
By the end of the year the Navy will deliver a mine warfare (MIW) plan to Congress that will double as congressionally-mandated certification the service is ready to replace its […]
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Navy/USMCLCS-17 Finishes Acceptance Trials, LCS-20 Delivered
The future USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship finished acceptance trials while the future Independence-variant USS Cincinnati (LCS-20) was delivered to the Navy this week. LCS-17, built by Fincantieri Marinette […]
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Navy/USMCGD Lodges Second Protest To HII LCS Planning Yard Services Contract
Last week General Dynamics’s [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) became the second company to protest a recent award to Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) planning yard […]
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InternationalBALTOPS Finishes After More Serials And Simultaneous Operations
The 2019 Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise ended on June 21 after finishing more serials than last year and conducting simultaneous amphibious operations across the Baltic Sea for the first time. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Issues Final FFG(X) Frigate RFP
The Navy issued the final request for proposals (RFP) for detail design and construction (DD&C) for the future guided-missile frigate, FFG(X), late on Thursday. This is the next step in […]
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Navy/USMCLSC Will Look More Zumwalt Than Arleigh Burke Says PEO Ships
A Navy official said the service’s next large surface combatant (LSC) will likely look more like the Zumwalt-class (DDG-1000) destroyers rather than the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) it will succeed. On […]
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Navy/USMCIran Shoots Down One Of Four Legacy Navy Global Hawk UAVs
U.S. Central Command confirmed Thursday that Iran shot down one of four legacy Navy Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near the Strait of Hormuz. The aircraft was a U.S. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Experimenting With MCM On ESBs This Summer
Later this summer the Navy plans to experiment with putting the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mine countermeasures (MCM) mission package on expeditionary sea bases (ESBs) as a vessel of opportunity, […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Finishes Flight Tests For RAM Upgrade
The U.S. Navy finished a series of guided flight tests for the Raytheon [RTN] Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2A surface-to-air missile, the company said Tuesday. The RAM is designed […]
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ArmyArmy Official Explains New IP Strategy
An Army official on Tuesday explained the main principles underpinning the service’s new Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy. Alexis Lasselle Ross, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition […]