Valerie Insinna
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Navy/USMCNewport News to Require Additional Shipyard Investments If Navy Expands Submarine Procurement in 2020s
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding is the midst of making improvements to its yard to support work on the Ford-class aircraft carrier and the Virginia-class and Ohio replacement […]
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Navy/USMCDRS Technologies Hoping LCS Downselect Provokes Second Look at Company’s 76mm Gun
Leonardo’s DRS Technologies is reviving its call for the Navy to incorporate the OTO Melara 76mm Super Rapid Gun on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The pitch isn’t exactly new—the […]
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Air ForceMcCain’s $17 Billion Amendment to NDAA Adds Billions For Aircraft, Ship Procurement
When Senate lawmakers return this June from Memorial Day recess, they will have to contend with the more than 190 amendments to the 2017 defense authorization bill that have been filed Of […]
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CyberNavy Pondering Multiple NGEN Recompete Contract Awards
The Navy is considering awarding multiple contracts for the recompete of the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) instead of relying on a single contractor to run the network, program officials […]
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Air ForceShipbuilders Win Out as Senate Appropriators Add Funds For Icebreaker to Spending Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s $574.5 billion defense spending bill, which the defense subcommittee (SAC-D) approved Tuesday, contained a big surprise: $1 billion in Navy shipbuilding funds to accelerate construction of […]
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CongressPentagon Officials Tell Congress FMS Process is ‘Burdened, Not Broken’
Defense Department officials on May 17 pushed back on industry claims that the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process is moving too slowly, necessitating major reforms. The FMS process as a […]
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BudgetMcCain to Offer Amendment Bumping Up Defense Funding in NDAA
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) chairman said Thursday evening that he would seek to increase the defense authorization bill by at least $17 billion through an amendment he’d offer […]
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Navy/USMCBath Iron Works Delivers DDG-1000 to Navy
The Navy on Friday accepted delivery of the first in a class of futuristic destroyers, the future USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000). The ship, built by General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Prepping For Another Round of Longbow Hellfire Tests
This year the Navy will conduct another series of tests of a modified, vertically-launched Longbow Hellfire missile before integrating it on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in 2017, a program […]