Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps: Capabilities Needed For New ‘Operational Unpredictability’ Deployment Strategy
The Marine Corps is looking for new long-range precision fire and information warfare capabilities needed for its move to a new force deployment approach focused on fostering “operational unpredictability.” Officials […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Considers Offensive Amphib Sea Capability, Using Auxiliaries More, And Extra Marine Capabilities On Surface Ships
The Marine Corps is thinking about how to best use its amphibious and auxiliary support ships as the Navy fleet grows, including by adding offensive weapons, leaders said at an […]
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Navy/USMCFirst Over-The-Horizon Missiles Going On Independence LCS In 2020
The first installation of the Raytheon [RTN] – Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) as the Over-the-Horizon (OTH) missile will be on an Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) starting in fiscal […]
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Navy/USMCPratt Awarded $2 Billion Mod For F-35 Engine Equipment
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Untied Technologies Corp.’s [UTX] Pratt & Whitney a $2 billion modification for engine equipment to support F-35 low-rate initiation production Lot 11 aircraft, […]
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Navy/USMCLCS-11 Finishes Acceptance Trials
The future USS Sioux City (LCS-11) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship finished its Navy acceptance trials last week, prime integrator Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Thursday. The trials were conducted from […]
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Navy/USMCInchcape To Pay $20 Million For Overbilling Navy
This article was updated with a statement from Inchcape. Inchcape Shipping Services Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries agreed to pay $20 million to resolve allegations they knowingly overbilled the U.S. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Commissions Newest LCS USS Manchester
The U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Manchester (LCS-14), the newest combat ship and Littoral Combat Ship on May 26 in Portmouth, N.H. LCS-14 is the 12th LCS and seventh Independence-variant […]
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Navy/USMCHII Finishes First SSN-789 Sea Trials
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) finished a successful set of initial sea trials for the latest Virginia-class attack submarine, the future USS Indiana (SSN-789), the company said […]
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BudgetSenate’s 2019 Defense Bill Fully Funds Pentagon Rotorcraft Request
If not showered in funding, military rotorcraft procurement at least is funded at levels requested by the Defense Department in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the fiscal […]
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Navy/USMCSenate NDAA Leaves Out LCS, Does Not Authorize CVN-81
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of its FY ’19 defense authorization bill does not allow additional Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) or authorize CVN-81 ahead of reports on a two-carrier […]