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Navy/USMC
Navy Undersea Warfare Head Sees Columbia Production Line Options And More VPM Loads
The Navy is looking at options to keep the Columbia-class submarine production line hot past a 12th boat and diversify what is loaded into the Virginia Payload Module, the service’s […]
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Air Force
Trump Makes Picks For Aviation Safety Panel Include Textron CEO
President Trump on Nov. 9 made his four appointments to the National Commission on Aviation Safety that will delve into and report on the recent spike in military aviation mishaps. […]
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With Threat Level Low, Navy Has No Requirement To Harden Vessels For Arctic Ops, GAO Says
The Navy has no existing or planned requirements to harden any of its surface vessels to operate in the Arctic region even though sea ice is declining for parts of […]
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Navy/USMC
Welding Mistake With Columbia Missile Tubes Was Bigger Problem Than BWXT Thought
Botching welds on 12 missile tubes for the Columbia-class submarine earlier this year proved a costly mistake for BWX Technologies [BWXT], which on Wednesday said the problems with its welding […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Drops Draft RFP For Helicopter Trainer Replacement
The U.S. Navy released a draft request for proposals (RFP) for its new training helicopter and gave industry hopefuls about two weeks to provide comments on how the final document, […]
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Congress
HASC Leaders Make Appointments to Aviation Safety Commission
Both of the top two lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee have made their appointments to the eight-member blue-ribbon panel charged with studying an ongoing military aviation crisis. The […]
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Nuclear Modernization
GD Electric Boat Tightening Oversight on Vendor That Botched Columbia Missile Tubes
General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat brought the hammer down on the supplier that botched a weld job this year on 12 missile tubes intended for the Columbia-class submarine, the president […]
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Navy/USMC
Caldwell Insists Columbia Construction Will Start in 2021 — But Hard Work Needed to Make Patrol in 2031
The head of the joint Navy-Department of Energy naval reactors program insisted construction on the first Columbia-class ballistic submarine will begin in 2021, but warned that “there will be problems,” […]
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Navy/USMC
Naval Reactors Head to Speak Wednesday at Sub Conference
The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s naval reactors program, steward of the heavy-industry programs that provide nuclear propulsion systems for the Navy, is scheduled to speak Wednesday to […]
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Navy/USMC
Sikorsky To Provide $700 Million in H-53 Sustainment Over Four Years
Sikorsky [LMT] was recently awarded a $717 million performance-based logistics contract to provide supply and logistics support to the entire fleet of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps legacy CH-53E Super […]