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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Awarded $83 Million Mine Neutralizer Contract, AMDR LRIP Unit
Raytheon [RTN] was awarded an $83 million Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) contract on Thursday to design, test, and deploy the Barracuda mine neutralization system. The company describes the Barracuda […]
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Navy/USMCNew Ships Commissioned and Launched
The Navy plans to commission the latest San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, the future USS Portland (LPD-27), on Saturday at its namesake city in Portland, Ore., while shipmakers launched and […]
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Navy/USMCMerz: Navy Separating DDG-1000 Gun Ammo From Ship Effort
The Deputy Chief of Naval operations for warfare systems told a Senate panel last week the Navy has separated the DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class gun and overall ship efforts from each other […]
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Navy/USMCCongress Puts LCS Pressure On Navy, Says Layoffs Possible At Wisconsin Yard
A bipartisan set of Congress members from Michigan and Wisconsin are putting pressure on the Navy for its FY ’18 and ’19 acquisition of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), arguing without […]
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Navy/USMCNavy To Spend $21 Billion To Modernize Public Shipyards Over 20 Years, Unconcerned On LCS Deployments
The U.S. Navy is planning to spend $21 billion over 20 years to modernize and optimize the four public shipyards to help sustain a larger Navy, top Navy officials told […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Establishes Organization To Permanently Oversee West Pacific Ship Readiness
The Navy formally established the Commander, Naval Surface Group Western Pacific (CNSG WP) in Japan to oversee surface ship maintenance and certification of forward deployed naval forces in Japan (FDNF-J), […]
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Navy/USMCTextron Starts At-Sea Testing For First Ship-to-Shore Connector
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Textron’s [TXT] Maritime and Land Systems’ Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) hovercraft started its first at-sea on-water testing, company officials told Defense Daily during the annual Sea Air […]
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Navy/USMCNavy And Raytheon Integrate JSOW On F-35C
The U.S. Navy and Raytheon [RTN] finished the final developmental test to integrate the Joint Standoff Weapon C (JSOW-C) onto the F-35C, the company said Tuesday. This test occurred on […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Studying New Hospital Ship Needs, Has Made Plans For SLEP
The Navy has commissioned a Requirements Evaluations Team to examine what the future Navy fleet needs in a hospital ship and distributed hospital capability, top Navy officials said in a […]
