Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCUPDATED: Half of US V-22s Can’t Fly And That Won’t Improve ‘Soon Enough’
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Just over half of the U.S. military’s V-22 Ospreys are ready to fly missions at any given time and the service doesn’t plan to hit its […]
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Navy/USMCConfident in Twin-Engine Pitch, Airbus Readies For Navy Trainer Production
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Conspicuously absent from the show floor at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space Conference was the Airbus H135, given that its main competitors to build the Navy’s […]
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Navy/USMCThird FY ‘20 Virginia Sub Means To Give Industry Time, Show Commitment
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Virginia-class submarine program manager said this week the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2020 request for a third vessel is meant to give contractors time to prepare to change […]
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Navy/USMCDARPA And Marine Corps Cancel ARES Program For Cost Growth, Delays
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Marine Corps have canceled the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) program because of cost overruns and schedule slips. Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Skunk […]
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Navy/USMCGeurts: Navy Focus On Columbia Margin About Sub Cadence
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy’s top acquisitions official said Tuesday the Navy’s concern with maintaining the Columbia-class ballistic missile (SSBN) submarine schedule margin is focused on the overall submarine […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Planning More Autonomous Platform Experiments, Standing Up USV Test Group In San Diego
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. –The Navy is increasing the number of experiments with autonomous platforms, as the service looks to invest over $1 billion in unmanned technologies, to better understand the […]
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Navy/USMCOfficial: Columbia Will Be On Time But No Margin, Supplier Inspections Continue
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The program manager for the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines said Tuesday while the boats have almost no margin for delays, he believes the submarines will be […]
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Homeland SecurityForthcoming Arctic Strategies Will Shape National Plans For Arctic, Coast Guard Chief Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Following the Coast Guard’s release in late April of its strategic outlook for the Arctic, the White House and Defense Department are also crafting strategies for the region […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Seeks More Foreign Poseidon Partners As P-8 Deliveries Near End
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Approaching the U.S. Navy’s final planned buy of Boeing [BA] P-8 Poseidons in 2020, 169 of the multimission maritime aircraft have been sold across seven countries. […]
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Navy/USMCV-22 Program Seeks Savings In Foreign Customers, But 2020 Deadline Looms
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Having Japan as a foreign military sales partner on the V-22 could end up saving the U.S. government $60 million or more over the life of the program, […]