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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCAustralia Will Only Buy Used Virginia SSNs For AUKUS; UUV Tech To Be Pillar II Signature Project
The defense ministers of the three AUKUS partners last Saturday announced Australia will now exclusively buy used American Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) and that the first “signature project” of Pillar […]
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Missile DefenseLockheed Martin Opens NGI Production Facility
Lockheed Martin [LMT] in a ceremony today officially opened a new 88,000-square foot production facility dedicated to producing the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in […]
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Navy/USMCDIU And Navy Launch Mine Countermeasure Modernization Prize
The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Friday announced the launch of a new $10 million mine countermeasure (MCM) modernization prize challenge with the Navy to add more tools […]
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Business/FinancialAustal USA Names Miller As New President
Austal USA on Wednesday named interim president Gene Miller as the company’s permanent president, effective immediately. Miller succeeds former president Michelle Kruger, who the company announced in February planned to […]
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Navy/USMCHASC Looks To Restrict USV Deliveries Without Navy CONOPS And Strategy
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense policy draft bill aims to restrict the Navy’s use of unmanned surface vessels (USV) until it decides on key factors […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Names New Temporary Acquisition Chief
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao on Tuesday announced he selected William Mahan to perform the duties of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN-RDA) […]
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Navy/USMCHASC Bill Funds Second Destroyer, Adds Several Multi-Ship Procurements, Puts Limits On Battleship
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) chairman’s mark of the fiscal year 2027 defense authorization act, released May 26, largely approved the Navy’s shipbuilding request, but it added funds to […]
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Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition
The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections
The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]