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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCHII Secures $528 Million Contract For Five-Year San Diego Carrier Maintenance
The Navy awarded HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division a $528 million five-year contract covering maintenance on aircraft carriers in San Diego. The contract, awarded on July 21 and […]
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Navy/USMCFourth Fleet Seeks Future Watchstander AI Tool
As the U.S. Fourth Fleet starts practicing operationalizing unmanned systems, it is interested in ultimately getting watchstander data artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help sift through the added data coming […]
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Navy/USMCFourth Fleet Means To ‘Operationalize’ Unmanned Systems For Months At A Time
The U.S. Fourth Fleet intends to continue using unmanned systems in exercises not to just test them out, but figure out how to fully operationalize them in action, according to […]
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Navy/USMCWhite House Nominates Franchetti As CNO, Paparo To Indo-Pacific Command
The White House on Friday announced President Biden intends to nominate the next officers to serve as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Vice CNO, Commander of Indo-Pacific Command and Pacific […]
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Navy/USMCTwo Navy Trackers Disagree On Super Hornet Availability Rates
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report found that while the Navy Department uses two separate databases to track aircraft availability the newer one is better at predicting actual flying […]
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Navy/USMCLeidos Nabs $36 Million Mod To Build Four MUUVs
The Navy awarded Leidos [LDOS] a $36 million contract modification exercising an option to build, test and deliver four engineering development model Medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (MUUV). A year ago, […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans To Award New Version Of Low Band Next Gen Jammer EMD Contract In September
The Navy anticipates awarding a new version of the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract for the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band(NGJ-LB), according to a Defense Department reprogramming request for fiscal […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Looks To Move Around MQ-25 Funding Due To EMD Delays
The Navy requested Congress let it move hundreds of millions of dollars related to the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft funds for fiscal year 2023 due to delays in […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans To Issue EMD Contract For Carrier-Based Hypersonic Weapon In Early 2024
A recent Navy notice said the service intends to conduct a competition for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase for an aircraft carrier-based hypersonic weapon program later this year […]
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Navy/USMCDoD Establishes Navy Science and Technology Board
The Defense Department said Monday it was establishing a new Department of the Navy Science and Technology (DoN S&T) Board in a notice posted to the Federal Register. Secretary of […]
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