Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy CMV-22B Osprey Variant Finishes First Flight
The first CMV-22B Osprey for the Navy completed its first flight operations, the manufacturer said Tuesday. The tiltrotor CMV-22B conducted flight operations at the Bell Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas. […]
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Navy/USMCMine Countermeasures ESB Exercise Set For Spring
The Navy is planning to conduct an expeditionary sea base (ESB) Phase III feasibility demonstration of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mine countermeasures (MCM) mission package in the spring. In […]
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Navy/USMCFord Starts Aircraft Tests In First Of 11 Underway Periods In PDT&T
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier started Aircraft Compatibility Testing (ACT) last week while Navy officials noted this will be one of 11 underway times during the Post […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps May Use Shore-Based Naval Strike Missile
The Navy’s top acquisition official this week said the Navy and Marine Corps are seriously considering using the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) as a Marine Corps shore-based anti-ship battery. “Just […]
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Navy/USMCFY ’21 Budget Request to Include ‘Adjustment’ to LUSV Procurement Schedule, PEO Says
The Navy portion of the fiscal year 2021 presidential budget will include schedule adjustments for when the service plans to formally acquire large unmanned surface vessels (LUSVs), a service official […]
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Navy/USMCBoeing, Navy Conduct First Flight Of Super Hornet With Block II IRST System
Boeing [BA] on Wednesday said that it and the Navy recently completed the first flight of an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft with the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Block II […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Planning To Upgrade Old Destroyers with SPY-6 Radars
The Navy is studying how to backfit older Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51 Flight IIA destroyers with a variant of the new AN/SPY-6 radar, officials said Wednesday. “We’re working hard – it’s […]
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BudgetGallagher: Unified ConOps, More Shipbuilding, Fewer Amphibs Needed to Counter China
The Navy deserves a larger cut of the annual budget to ensure it is prepared for its role in a future conflict with peer adversaries, but must make tough choices […]
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Navy/USMCGreater Integration With Navy Required For Competition With China, Marine Corps Commandant Says
The Marine Corps’ must work to better integrate future capabilities and warfighting concepts with the Navy to prepare for the growing power competition with China, the commandant said Wednesday. Gen. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Pushes LSC Back Again To Late 2020s
A Navy official said the service is pushing back acquiring the future Large Surface Combatant (LSC) again to the late 2020s. Officials had previously said they hoped to have the […]