Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCSenate Appropriators Fund Ship Repairs, New Ships And Naval Aircraft
Senate appropriators agreed to increase Navy funding by billions to add new ships, new aircraft, and repair damaged destroyers as part of funding bill proposed on Nov. 21. The appropriations […]
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Navy/USMCU.S. Navy Destroyer Benfold Collides With Tug Boat, Causing Minor Damage
Another U.S. guided-missiles destroyer collided with a commercial vessel in Japanese waters on Saturday, but this time U.S. damage was “minimal,” the Navy said. The Navy said in a statement […]
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Navy/USMCU.S. Helps Argentina With Submarine Search And Rescue
The U.S. Navy deployed several naval and undersea rescue assets over the weekend to help Argentina search for its naval submarine, the A.R.A San Juan (S-42), in South Atlantic waters. […]
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SpaceLockheed Martin Hands Control Of MUOS-5 Satellite To Navy
Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the U.S. Navy’s Communications Satellite program Office handed over operational control of the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) communications satellite to the Naval Satellite Operations […]
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Business/FinancialBoeing Official Talks Up Aurora Acquisition, Still in MQ-25 Competition
A Boeing [BA] executive told reporters on Wednesday that he is “really excited about Aurora” Flight Sciences joining the company and confirmed the company is still in the MQ-25 unmanned […]
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Navy/USMCU.S. Transportation Command Eyes Replacing Reserve Cargo Ships
U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) is working with the Navy to develop plans to replace the military’s aging reserve fleet of cargo ships, the command’s leader said Nov. 15. TRANSCOM and the […]
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Navy/USMCHII Delivers DDG-114 To The Navy
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] delivered its latest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer on Wednesday, the future USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114), the Navy said. DDG-114 was delivered at HII’s Pascagoula, Miss., facility […]
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Navy/USMC2018 NDAA Establishes $10 Million Prize Option To Solve Physiological Episodes
The fiscal year (FY) 2018 compromise defense authorization bill would authorize the Secretary of Defense to establish a prize competition to help find the causes of and solutions to physiological […]
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Navy/USMCU.S. Three-Carrier Group Conducted Training With Japan And South Korea Navies
The U.S. Navy held two separate international training exercises with Japan and South Korea this Sunday while conducting rare coordinated operations with three U.S. carrier strike groups in the Western […]
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Navy/USMCMQ-9 Reaper Demonstrated Remote Detection Of Submerged Targets
The General Atomics [GA] MQ-9 Reaper/Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully detected and tracked submerged contacts during an Oct. 12 U.S. Navy exercise, the company said on Monday. This […]