Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMC
SASC Chair ‘Encouraged’ By Trump’s Plan For New White House Shipbuilding Office
The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday he’s “encouraged” by President Trump’s plan to establish a new office in the White House dedicated to bolstering domestic shipbuilding. […]
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Air Force
Longer Term Contracts Would Ease Production Surge, if Required for F-35, Lockheed Martin Official Says
AURORA, Colo.–If the balloon goes up or if significant new orders for the F-35 materialize near-term, could Lockheed Martin [LMT] ramp up its annual global production of the fighter above […]
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Unmanned Systems
Black Sea Drone Combat Acting As U.S. Navy Battle Lab, Beyond Experimentation To Operationalization, Admiral Says
The Navy’s senior official leading maritime security assistance to Ukraine said their experience defending against Russia’s invasion is informing U.S. operations as a kind of battle lab and argued unmanned […]
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Navy/USMC
Trump Picks Former Navy Diver And Congressional Candidate Hung Cao For Navy Under Secretary
President Trump on late Thursday announced he will nominate former Navy captain and congressional candidate Hung Cao to be the Under Secretary of the Navy. “I am pleased to announce […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
X-Bow Gets Another Navy Award To Help With Energetics And Munitions Modernization
X-Bow Systems last Friday said it is received a $7 million Navy contract to support the service’s energetics center of excellence with modernizing its facilities and processes with new technologies. […]
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Air Force
Collins Aerospace: Proposed EPACS System for F-35 Achieves Technology Readiness Level 6
RTX‘s [RTX] Collins Aerospace said on Friday that its Enhanced Power and Cooling System (EPACS)–the company’s proposed replacement for the F-35 fighter’s current Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS)–has achieved […]
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Navy/USMC
SECNAV Nominee Says He Will Work To Improve Industrial Base, Evaluate Contracts
President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Navy promised legislators Thursday he would evaluate contracts and improve the shipbuilding industrial base, while justifying his utility as an outsider businessman with […]
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Unmanned Systems
Navy Issues RFI Survey For More Counter-Uncrewed Systems
The Navy on Wednesday issued a Request for Information (RFI) survey to find a wider range of low collateral defeat (LCD) Counter Uncrewed Systems (C-UXS) solutions. According to the notice, […]
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Navy/USMC
CVN-75 Carrier Returns To Sea Ops After Repairing Collision Damage
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) returned to conducting routine flight operations in the 6th Fleet area of operations on Feb. 24, following some repairs after a […]
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Congress
Give Large, Non-Defense U.S. Manufacturers ‘A Shot’ at New Programs, Feinberg Says
Simplifying DoD program requirements as part of an effort to spur more companies to make defense systems is a priority for Stephen Feinberg, the co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management and […]
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