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Rich Abott
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BudgetHouse Appropriators ‘Incensed’ By LCS Retirements, Explain Shipbuilding Decisions And Budget Cuts In Report
The House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) report on its draft of the fiscal year 2025 defense appropriations bill expressed severe displeasure with how the Navy is decommissioning Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) […]
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Navy/USMCWhite House Opposes Navy Provisions In Draft House NDAA Bill
The Biden administration on Tuesday detailed what Navy provisions it opposes in the House’s draft FY 2025 defense authorization bill, which focused on ship procurement funding and restrictions on ship […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Seeks Industry Info On Long Endurance Small Unmanned Surface Vessels For Special Warfare
The Navy recently published a Request For Information (RFI) seeking industry information on technologies related to long endurance small unmanned surface vessels (LE sUSVs). “The Government wants to understand the […]
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Navy/USMCRTX Nabs $668 Million Award To Build More SPY-6 Navy Radars
The Navy awarded RTX [RTX] a $678 million modification on June 7 to exercise options for additional AN/SPY-6(V) radar hardware production. The company underscored this is the third option under […]
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Missile DefenseCollins: First Test Of Space-Based Hypersonic Sensors Within A Week, MDA Starting New Look At Airborne Lasers
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) expects the first flight test using a pair of prototype space-based hypersonic sensors to occur within a week while also starting to look at a […]
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Navy/USMCBAE Details $95 Million Contract For P-8A Electronic Warfare Pods
The Navy in March awarded BAE Systems a $95 million contract for research, development and low-rate initial production on electronic warfare (EW) Advanced Survivability Pods for the P-8A Poseidon aircraft, […]
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Missile DefenseCollins: MDA Looks To Hypersonic Defense Alternatives With Hill Acceleration Push
The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Thursday said the agency is looking at what additional current systems could be used or modified to defend against hypersonic threats […]
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Navy/USMCDIU Seeks Commercial Solutions For Navy’s Improved Energy Resilience
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday issued a solicitation seeking large-scale commercial solutions to provide the Navy with improved energy resilience with a better cost structure. The notice said […]
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InternationalAustralia Committing To Collins-Class Sub Life Extension With Fewer Upgrades
Australia on Wednesday announced the start of a life extension program for the Collins-class submarine that curtails previously planned upgrades while it awaits U.S. and domestically-made nuclear-powered attack submarines in […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Austal $516 Million To Finish First New T-AGOS 25 Ocean Surveillance Ship
The Navy awarded Austal USA a $516 million contract modification on May 30, exercising an option for ordering long-lead time material and to continue/complete detail design and construction (DD&C) work […]
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