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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCSub Official Vows First Columbia Boat On Patrol By 2030
A Navy official last week promised the first Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine will deploy for patrol by 2030 despite a year of delays. “How’s Columbia going today? In one […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Looks Into More Low Cost Unmanned Vessel Prototypes
A recent Navy notice said it plans to soon issue a Request For Solutions (RFS) for two sizes of low cost unmanned maritime vessel prototypes. The notice described this as […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Pushing Through Obstacles To Two Attack Subs Plus Columbia By 2028, Boosting Industrial Base By 140,000 Workers
A Navy submarine official last week reiterated their “North Star” plans to increase submarine production to two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN) and one Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine annually by 2028, […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Awards Northrop Grumman $541 Million In Hypersonic Missile Defense Work After Downselect
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) last week awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] $541 million in five, single year firm-fixed-price contract options as part of it winning the competition to develop and […]
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Navy/USMCHypersonic Weapons On Zumwalt Destroyer Pushed Back To 2027
Testing the first hypersonic missiles on the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyer is running at least two years behind plan for 2025, pushed back to 2027, a Navy official said Thursday. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans Virginia Subs Go To Block Eight Before SSN(X) Starts
The Navy director for Naval Reactors said the service plans to at least reach Block Eight on Virginia-class attack submarines before moving on to next-generation submarines now planned for the […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Kongsberg $961 Million Contract For Naval Strike Missiles
The Navy awarded Norway’s Kongsberg a $961 million multiyear contract for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), also known as the Over the Horizon-Weapons System encanistered missiles. NSMs are currently deployed […]
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Navy/USMCTextron Nabs $394 Million Mod For Nine More SSC Landing Craft
The Navy on Nov. 8 awarded Textron Systems [TXT] a $394 million modification to build nine more Ship to Shore Connectors (SSC) hovercraft. The SSCs are 100-class Landing Craft Air […]
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Navy/USMCNew Team Forms To Compete For CVN-75 Carrier Dismantlement
A pair of companies with experience dismantling maritime vessels and nuclear facilities, respectively, are teaming up to compete on the dismantlement of decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, starting with the […]
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Missile DefensePatriot Hits Missile Test Target While Integrated With New LTAMDS Radar
Last weekend a Lockheed Martin [LMT] Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 missile successfully intercepted a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) while integrated with RTX [RTX] Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor […]
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