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Air ForceAcquisition Nominees Call For Prototyping Before Buying Major Weapon Systems
Rapid experimental prototyping of the sort that resulted in the SR-71 Blackbird and F-117 stealth fighter is the key to keeping major weapon system development programs on track, according to […]
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Navy/USMCTextron And U.S. Navy To Test Offensive Weapons On Unmanned Surface Vehicle
Textron [TXT] and the U.S. Navy have agreed to develop and integrate new offensive and other payloads on the company’s unmanned surface vehicle, the company told Defense Daily in an […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Aims For $800 Million Future Frigate Cost, Leveraging Modularity and Commonality
A key admiral last week said the service is hoping to keep the new Guided-Missile Frigate (FFG(X)) cost at $800 million each and will be leveraging modularity margins in construction. […]
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Navy/USMCGeurts Sees OA Helping the Navy Keep Pace With Technology
The Navy’s new Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (RD&A) James Geurts last week emphasized the importance of open architectures in acquisition for the Navy. While […]
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Navy/USMCDDG-51 Flight III Status Update
The DDG-51 program manager said at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium last week that the DDG-51 Alreigh Burke class Flight III Baseline’s detail design work is on track to […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Lasers Moving On Up, Modularity Can Help
The head of the Navy Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren said at a panel during the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium on Wednesday that integrating a laser weapon across a […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Still Has No Plans For DDG-1000 Gun Ammo
The Navy still does not have any planned replacement rounds for the three-ship DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer main guns, officials said at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium this week. Capt. […]
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InternationalNavy Looking At Saab For Interim Anti-Sub Training
Sweden’s Saab announced Monday it will demonstrate its AUV62-AT anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training system for the U.S. Navy as the service looks into an interim solution to replace its aging […]
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Navy/USMCNAVSEA Officials Seek Accelerated Acquisition, Modular Approach To Unmanned Systems
Navy officials are looking to move forward with a modular systems approach to speed up acquisition of incremental capabilities and focus delivery efforts for its unmanned maritime systems. Building on […]
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Navy/USMCHouse Hearing To Probe Possible Fixes For Navy Ship Woes
The House Armed Services Committee’s readiness and seapower panels plan to hold a joint hearing Jan. 18 to scrutinize how the Navy will remedy problems that led to a series […]