Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMC
Columbia Sub In Good Shape, But May Require More Oversight, CNO Says
The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is currently in good shape but the program has little room for error and may require tighter oversight, the Chief of Naval Operations said on […]
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Homeland Security
Planned Heavy Polar Icebreaker Fleet Pegged At $10 Billion; Program Faces Risks, GAO Says
The estimated life-cycle costs for the Coast Guard’s planned fleet of three heavy polar icebreakers is $9.8 billion and the program faces a number of risks, including design, technology, cost […]
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Navy/USMC
MQ-25 Award Covers 72 Vehicles, Moves Up IOC
The Navy late Thursday said that the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker program intends to eventually deliver 72 aircraft after the initial four test aircraft and the program is accelerating the […]
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Navy/USMC
Raytheon Awarded $60 Million For CH-53, V-22 FLIR Systems
Raytheon [RTN] took home a five-year $59.7 million contract by the U.S. Navy for support of its forward looking infrared (FLIR) system aboard the CH-53 and V-22 Osprey aircraft, the […]
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Navy/USMC
Boeing Wins Navy MQ-25 Unmanned Tanker Competition
The Navy on Thursday selected Boeing [BA] over teams led by General Atomics and Lockheed Martin [LMT] to develop and build the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial tanker in a contract […]
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Navy/USMC
F-35C Conducts First Integrated Air Wing Ops On CVN-72
The Navy’s F-35C aircraft joined a carrier air wing for the first cyclic operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in Operational Test-1 (OT-1) during August, the […]
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Business/Financial
Aquabotix Gets Aboard Navy Info Warfare Consortium
The underwater robotics company UUV Aquabotix Ltd. was accepted as a member of the Navy’s new Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) consortium, the company said on Monday. The IWRP, falling […]
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Navy/USMC
Bell Takes Home Half-Billion Dollars in AH-1Z Work for US Marine Corps
Bell [TXT] recently was awarded a contract worth more than half a billion dollars to build new attack helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps. The $509 million deal covers the […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Reestablishes 2nd Fleet, CNO Says Will Extend To Edge Of Russia
The U.S. Navy officially reestablished the U.S. 2nd Fleet on Friday in a ceremony in Norfolk, Va., where the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said its area will […]
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Navy/USMC
MALD-X Expendable Decoy Finishes Free Flight Demos
The Department of Defense (DoD) successfully conducted a series of free flight demonstrations of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-X (MALD-X) this week, the Department said on Thursday. The MALD-X is […]