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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCCNO Says Navy Continues Towards NGAD Selection As Air Force Pauses
The Navy’s top officer last week confirmed the service is proceeding with its sixth-generation fighter concept even while the Air Force pauses its program with concerns about cost and having […]
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Navy/USMCHASC Leaders Press Navy For Details And Fixing Plans To HII-NNS Faulty Welds
Leaders in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and its seapower subcommittee on Oct. 3 sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro with several pointed questions […]
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Navy/USMCGAO: Columbia-Class Schedule And Cost Growth Likely To Increase, Navy Should Revise Cost Estimates
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) latest audit of the Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine program estimated the first new boat has cost overruns several times higher than the shipbuilder and […]
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Missile DefenseL3Harris To Provide Propulsion For Northrop GPI
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] recently said it will provide hypersonic missile defense prime contractor Northrop Grumman [NOC] with two solid rocket motors to the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI). Last week, the […]
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Nabs $1.26 Billion In Navy Missile Contracts
RTX’s Raytheon [RTX] on Sept. 27 won over $1.26 billion in Navy contracts to build and deliver AIM-9X Sidewinder and Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) Block II Guided Missile Assemblies. Naval […]
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Navy/USMCHII Admits To Faulty Welds On Carriers And Subs, House Committee Investigating
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) [HII] recently told the Navy and Justice Department that it discovered some faulty welds on Navy submarines and aircraft carriers were made purposefully, if not […]
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InternationalAUKUS Nations Announce Winners Of First Trilateral Electronic Warfare Challenge
The three AUKUS nations recently announced the winners of the first trilateral Electronic Warfare Challenge to find electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) technology to give the allies an edge in warfighting. The […]
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Navy/USMCAUKUS Defense Ministers Announce New U.K.-Australia Treaty And Shared P-8 Torpedoes
The defense ministers of the AUKUS countries on Thursday announced new advances in their agreement to share technologies, including negotiations on a new U.K.-Australian defense treaty about sharing nuclear-powered submarine […]
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Missile Defense
MDA Chooses Northrop Grumman For Hypersonic Defender Over RTX
The Missile Defense Agency on Wednesday selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] over RTX [RTX] to continue developing the counter-hypersonic missile defense program, the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI). MDA said this means […]
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Navy/USMCFour-Ship Amphib Order Includes Incentives To Retain And Grow Labor Force
The Navy’s $9.47 billion award to HII’s [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding this week for three Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships and one America-class amphibious assault ship includes several […]
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