Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCHII Nabs Another $146 Million For LHA-9 Lead Time Material
The Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] another $146 million undefinitized contract action to procure long-lead time material for the amphibious assault ship LHA-9. The Navy first awarded HII a […]
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Navy/USMCBoeing Delivers First Block III Super Hornets To Navy For Tests
Aircraft builder Boeing [BA] delivered the first two Block III F/A-18E/F Super Hornet test aircraft to the Navy for flight testing, the company said Wednesday. The two aircraft consist of […]
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Navy/USMCFirst Fully Maritime BALTOPS Concludes
The 2020 annual NATO Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) naval exercise concluded on June 16 after a week and a half of exclusively maritime exercises. Due to restrictions to limit exposure with […]
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Navy/USMCSecond Ship-to-Shore Connector Finishes Acceptance Trials, GAO Reports Issues
The Navy on Tuesday said the second Textron Systems [TXT] Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), LCAC-101, finished acceptance trials last week after a recent Government Accountability Office report explained several technical delays. […]
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WeaponsFirst StormBreaker Test With Super Hornet
A U.S. Navy flight test recently conducted the first guided release of a Raytheon Technologies [RTX] StormBreaker bomb from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the company said Tuesday. StormBreaker is the […]
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Navy/USMCGAO Denies GD NGEN-R Protest, Info To Come
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week denied General Dynamics Information Technology’s [GD] protest of Leidos’ [LDOS] win of a Navy Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN) contract. A decision […]
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Navy/USMC
SASC NDAA Maintains Ship Request, Adds Long Lead Funds And Restricts Unmanned Vessels
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) FY 2021 defense authorization bill largely follows the Navy’s shipbuilding request, but adds long lead funding for other vessels and restricts acquisition for unmanned […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Received First JPALS Production Unit
The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) received the Navy’s first Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) production unit in April, the service revealed Tuesday. The first JPALS was delivered almost […]
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Navy/USMCElbit Reveals UK USV Anti-Sub Trials
Elbit Systems [ESLT] on Monday said its Seagull Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) finished a set of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) trials with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MoD) last October. […]
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Navy/USMCFord EMALS Went Down During Testing At Sea
The USS Gerald R. Ford‘s (CVN-78) Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapult went down for five days during at-sea testing last week, the Navy revealed June 7. On June 2, […]