A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report assessed the FY ‘22 Navy long-range shipbuilding plan would cost 10 to 43 percent more than recent shipbuilding budgets and the future force could reduce the fleet’s Vertical Launch System (VLS) missile capacity. In June, the Navy submitted ...
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The future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) finished its acceptance trials on Sept. 16, the Navy said on Friday. During the trials, the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) inspected the ship while performing a set of demonstrations both pier side and ...
Incentive payments for Lockheed Martin [LMT] in the new, possibly $6.6 billion, three-year sustainment contract to the company for its F-35 fighter are contingent upon the meeting of cost per flight hour (CPFH), parts availability, and aircraft full mission capable (FMC) rate goals for fiscal 2021, ...
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Sept. 16 that it recently demonstrated the ability to link six F-35 Full Mission Simulators (FMS)–four at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, Calif., and two at Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.–to ease the training for pilots of the fifth-generation ...
Naval Air Systems Command awarded Northrop Grumman’s Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC [NOC] a $41 million contract for 16 low rate initial production (LRIP) Lot One AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles – Extended Range (AARGM-ER). This contract covers the 16 AARGM-ERs as well ...
Boeing’s [BA] MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker test asset, called T1, conducted the first unmanned aerial refueling with a Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35C Joint Strike Fighter for the Navy on Sept. 13. The company and Navy said their integrated team conducted the refueling test flight ...