Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCLCS-13 Finishes Acceptance Trials
The seventh Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Wichita (LCS-13), finished its acceptance trials last week, prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Friday. Freedom-variant LCSs are built by Fincantieri’s […]
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Navy/USMCKratos Delivers First New Drone Cruise Missile Target To Navy
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] has delivered the first of 45 BQM-177A year one subsonic aerial target systems for the Navy, the company and service announced this week. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans to Accelerate UUVs, Changing Acquisition Strategies
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s report on the annual defense appropriations bill revealed major changes to the acquisition strategies of the large displacement and extra large unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV and […]
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InternationalNew Zealand To Buy Four P-8A Poseidon Aircraft for $1.6 Billion
The New Zealand government on Monday approved a plan to acquire four Boeing [BA] P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for $1.6 billion to replace its six legacy P-3K2 Orion aircraft. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy’s Unmanned Helicopter Completes Operational Shipboard Test
The Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) finished the first comprehensive operational test of its new shipboard unmanned helicopter late last month, the service said on Monday. Initial […]
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Navy/USMCNorthrop Grumman Awarded $96.5 Million Counter-IED Production Mod
The Navy late last month awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $96.5 million modification to exercise options for full-rate production of the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIEDO Electronic Warfare […]
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Navy/USMCGeneral Atomics Using New Tank To Maximize Fuel Capacity On MQ-25 Offering
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is planning to use a new tank structure to maximize fuel capacity on its offering for the Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned aerial tanker after successful […]
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Navy/USMCEPF-10 Finishes Builder’s Trials
The Navy’s next Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel, the future USNS Burlington (EPF-10), successfully finished its builder’s trials on June 29, the Navy said on Thursday. The ship was built by […]
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Navy/USMCOfficials Says Fully Automated Mine Countermeasure Vessels Still A Long Way Off, Updates Current Progress
Although unmanned programs are developing quickly, the Navy is not close to fully automated systems like a single stride counter-mine vessel, according to a service official. Howard Berkof, deputy program […]
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Navy/USMC
Streamlining Acquisition Is Working, Unmanned Navy Official Says
The deputy program manager for the Navy’s unmanned maritime systems program office said the service is streamlining and quickening acquisition as the service acquisitions chief’s strategy of pushing responsibilities down […]