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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDARPA Launches Development Of Plug-And-Play Counter-Drone System
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has hired three firms to find ways of defeating the small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) that have become one of the most pervasive […]
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Navy/USMCTop Three Fitzgerald Commanders Relieved Of Duty
The U.S. Navy relieved of duty the top three officers of the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) last Thursday months after the ship collided with a merchant vessel near Japan (Defense Daily, […]
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Navy/USMCNewest Navy LPD Completes Acceptance Trials
The Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding-built latest Amphibious Transport Dock, the future USS Portland (LPD-27), completed acceptance trials on Aug 18, the Navy and company announced Monday. Acceptance trials […]
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Navy/USMCHII Finishes DDG-61 Overhaul And Redelivers Back To The Navy
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding division redelivered the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG-61) to the Navy on Monday after completing nine months of overhaul and modernization […]
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Navy/USMCRichardson Orders Operational Pause In Navy Amid Second DDG Collison In Three Months
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson on Monday ordered an operational pause in all U.S. fleets around the world following the second collision between an Aegis Arleigh Burke-class […]
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Navy/USMCWreckage Of Famed WWII Cruiser Indianapolis Found Three Miles Under Pacific
More than 70 years after a Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side and sent the USS Indianapolis to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, the ship’s wreckage was […]
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Navy/USMCLCS-9 Finishes Builder’s Trials
The Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built Littoral Combat Ship Little Rock (LCS-9) successfully completed builder’s trials last week, a milestone is preparing the fifth Freedom-variant LCS for acceptance trials within weeks, the […]
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Navy/USMCFirst DARPA Test Of Elevated Sensor Mast On Commissioned Ship
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently demonstrated the prototype of an elevated sensor aboard a commissioned U.S. Navy vessel for the first time, the agency said last Monday. The […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Conducts First LRASM Free Flight
The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [LMT] conducted the first free flight launch of the company’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from an Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber on Aug. […]
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InternationalCanada Awards Thales Up To $4.1 Billion In Arctic And Support Ship Services
The Canadian Acting Minister of Public Services and Procurement announced Thursday an eight-year $631 million contract award France’s Thales to provide in-service support for Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) and […]