Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCHouse Panel Calls For Five Additional Ships Over Request And Assorted Ship Authorizations
A House subcommittee is pushing the Navy to procure five ships over the fiscal year 2018 budget request as part of an effort to push the fleet towards 355 ships. […]
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Navy/USMCMarines Ground F-35Bs At Yuma Due To Logistics Information System Problems
The U.S. Marine Corps has suspended F-35B operations at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona due to “problems” with the fighter jet’s Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), Sen. John […]
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Navy/USMCLawmakers Could OK Block Buys For V-22, F-35 Parts
The House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces wants to authorize the Pentagon to buy aircraft and spare parts in bulk to save money on future purchases […]
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Navy/USMCHII Wins $3 Billion Contract To Build Amphibious Assault Ship Bougainville
The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding a $3 billion fixed-price-incentive contract modification to build the amphibious assault ship Bougainville (LHA-8), the company and Defense […]
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InternationalUSS Fitzgerald Collides With Philippine Container Ship, Causes Severe Damage
The USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, collided with a merchant container ship about 56 nautical miles from Yokosuka, Japan on Friday, causing “severe damage” to the destroyer and […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Orders $83 Million In Additional AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder Missiles For U.S. And International Clients
The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon [RTN] an $83 million modification to a previously awarded contract to procure 180 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder all-up-round tactical full-rate production Lot 17 […]
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Navy/USMCCoalition Will Increase Naval Presence In Gulf Of Aden After Increased Pirate Attacks
The international coalition fighting piracy in the western Indian Ocean is stepping up its presence after recent attacks, it said last Monday. The coalition cited recent attacks against merchant shipping […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Review On Air Problems Makes Recommendations But Says Source Still Unknown
The Navy released on Thursday the results of a comprehensive review to determine the causes of and recommendations to eliminate pilot air problems in naval aviation systems. Following physiological physiological […]
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Navy/USMCGAO Says Navy Continues To Underestimate Costs Of Ford-Class Carriers
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Tuesday on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers finds the Navy is continuing to underestimate the cost of these ships past the first […]
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ArmyJLTV Outperforms Both Armored And Commercial Forebears; Will Field In 2019
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va–The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is an armored vehicle at its core, but the Army and Marine Corps’ new tactical truck has many of the […]