Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy Strategic Review Calls For Better Readiness Standards, Less Bureaucratic Overlap
Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer’s Strategic Readiness Review focused on four major recommendation types to prevent future Naval mishaps due to longstanding issues: focusing on readiness as a priority, […]
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CongressNASA Urges More Data Collection To Help Fix F/A-18 Oxygen Woes
A congressionally mandated review has been unable to determine why air crews of Navy F/A-18 Hornets and F/A-18E/F Super Hornets have experienced an increase in oxygen deprivation and other physiological […]
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Navy/USMCAll Navy T-45 Trainers To Get A New Oxygen-Monitoring System, Wicker Says
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower said Wednesday the Navy is working to equip every T-45C Goshawk trainer aircraft with a new oxygen-monitoring system by February. […]
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Navy/USMCLRASM Completes Another Successful Flight Test
The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully completed a production-configuration Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) flight test on Dec. 8 to complete another program milestone, the service said Tuesday. […]
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Navy/USMCMarines Deploy Tactical Biometrics System
The Marine Corps has completed fielding of a new handheld, multimodal biometrics data collection system that gives Marines the ability to quickly connect with databases to help identify individuals encountered […]
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Navy/USMCCanada Declines Last Minute FREMM Proposal For Future Frigate
The Canadian government’s procurement agency rejected a last-minute bid by France’s Naval Group and Italy’s Fincantieri to propose their FREMM frigate to satisfy the country’s new frigate project. Canada closed […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Leaders Say Budget Delays Cost Billions, Set Up Oversight Board For Mishap Recommendation
Top Navy officials on Monday clarified how much budget delays have cost the service and revealed a new oversight board to implement various recommendations meant to prevent future ship mishaps. […]
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Navy/USMCSpencer Swears In Navy Under Secretary And Assistant Secretary RDA
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer early this week swore in two top service officials: Thomas Modly as Under Secretary of the Navy and James Geurts as Assistant Secretary for Research, Development, […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Will Focus Zumwalt On Offensive Surface Strike
The Navy is working to change the requirements of the often troubled Zumwalt DDG-1000 destroyers to focus the ship on offensive surface strike missions, a service official said. The Navy […]
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Navy/USMCGAO And Navy Agree Lack of Available Amphibious Ships Limits Training
A top Navy official agreed with a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that the service’s dearth of amphibious ships is decreasing its ability to train for many amphibious priorities. Vice […]