Valerie Insinna
Articles By Valerie
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ArmyArmy Secretary Nominee Pledges to Create Rapid Capabilities Office If Confirmed
During a Thursday confirmation hearing, the administration’s nominee for Army Secretary vowed to make acquisition reform a focus of his tenure and to stand up a Rapid Capabilities Office meant […]
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Air ForceGrowth in Enemy Technology Drives SOCOM’s Laundry List of Requirements
Special operations component commanders on Wednesday detailed acquisition wish lists that included everything from new drones, precision guided munitions for small boats and laser weapons that can be mounted on […]
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Homeland SecurityMDA in January to Conduct Non-Intercept Test of Ground-based Midcourse Defense System
Later this month, the Missile Defense Agency will conduct a non-intercept test of its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system meant to prove out fixes to issues that caused a failed […]
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CongressDeputy Defense Secretary Work Lays Out Pentagon’s Goldwater-Nichols Review In Memo
The Pentagon has begun a three-month long review of the Defense Department meant to measure the efficacy of Goldwater-Nichols reforms, as well as identify potential areas where the organization needs […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Secretary: Slow FMS Process Is Nothing New
Add Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to the host of Pentagon and service officials who would like to see a faster foreign military sales process. The lag in finalizing a deal […]
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Navy/USMCDDG 1000 On Track For Delivery In April
The Navy’s first Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG-1000) will return to the seas for builder’s trials in about a month’s time, and the General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works ship is on […]
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Navy/USMCDDG-51 Flight III’s Air and Missile Defense Radar Slated For Developmental Tests This Summer
The centerpiece of the new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers—the AN/SPY 6V Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) by Raytheon [RTN]—is on track to begin developmental testing this summer at […]
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Navy/USMCDirector of Surface Warfare: Got an Over-the-Horizon Missile? Bring It!
The first upgunned frigate version of the Littoral Combat Ship is slated to have an over-the-horizon missile, but the Navy’s director of surface warfare wants to demonstrate at least one […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin Is Ready to Compete If Navy Narrows LCS Program to One Builder
Should the Navy decide to downselect to a single builder, Lockheed Martin [LMT] is confident its Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will emerge victorious against Austal’s Independence variant, a company […]
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CongressHouse Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman: FMS Process Needs to Speed Up
Congress is trying to push the Obama administration to accelerate the pace of foreign military sales (FMS), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said Friday. During a speech […]