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Rich Abott
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Looks To Field MADIS Air Defense By Next Year
A Marine Corps official this week said the service is looking to field two new mobile air defense systems by next year as an example of how quickly it is […]
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Navy/USMCBAE Nabs LSD-50 Repair Contract
BAE Systems’ Norfolk Ship Repair facility in Virginia won an $87 million Navy contract to perform maintenance, modernization and repair of the USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) this year. The contract, […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Starts New Fusion Center To Transition Tech Past ‘Valley Of Death’
The Marine Corps in recent months established a new Fusion Center in Quantico, Va., that seeks to streamline how to push new technology past development toward production. Marine Corps officials […]
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InternationalRTX Chooses Spain’s Sener To Help Make Patriot GEM-Ts For Europe
RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon business unit awarded a contract to Spain’s Sener to develop and produce the electro-mechanical control section on its Patriot GEM-T missiles, the company said Monday. RTX specifically […]
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Navy/USMCHII Delivers New Jersey Attack Sub To Navy
HII [HII] delivered the 23rd Virginia-class attack submarine to the Navy on Thursday, the future USS New Jersey (SSN-796). SSN-796 is the 11th submarine of its type HII’s Newport News […]
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Missile DefenseRTX Wins $344 Million Contract To Develop New SM-2 And SM-6 Variants With New Guidance Section
The Navy awarded RTX [RTX] a $344 million contract in March to develop two new Standard Missile (SM) variants that focus on a new common guidance section for U.S. and […]
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Air ForceAir Force Narrows CCA To Anduril and GA To Make Production-Representative Vehicles
The Air Force on Wednesday said it narrowed the field of the first Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) technology effort from five to two teams, led by Anduril and General Atomics. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Contract to Electra To Explore Using eSTOL Aircraft For Logistics
The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Electra.aero, Inc. a contract to study how it might use the company’s hybrid-electric electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for logistics in a […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Gets First New T-54A Multi-Engine Trainer Aircraft
The Navy received its first two operational Textron [TXT] T-54A multi-engine training system (METS) aircraft earlier this month. The service is buying the T-54s to replace the aging T-44C Pegasus […]
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Navy/USMCSECNAV Confirms Amphib Multi-Ship Buy Coming Soon
The Secretary of the Navy on Tuesday confirmed the government is negotiating a multi-ship procurement of four amphibious ships, with an announcement expected within weeks. “I think you’ll see something […]
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