Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy’s MUOS-5 Satellite Suffers Glitch In Space
The Navy’s fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) communications satellite, launched in late June, experienced an “anomaly” while being moved in space, the Navy announced July 8. MUOS-5 lifted off […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Gearing Up To Award Contract for Ohio Replacement Sub
The U.S. Navy plans to award the design contract for the Ohio replacement submarine to prime contractor General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat by October, a service official said July 8. […]
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Navy/USMCPresidential Helicopter Replacement Program Focusing On Communication Capabilities
The Marine Corps is committing to mastering the communications system in the Presidential Helicopter Replacement (PHR) program to ensure the new helicopter to fly future presidents actually gets fielded. A […]
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Air ForceNavy Issues Roughly $2 Billion In F-35 Contracts
The Navy on Thursday awarded a pair of F-35 contracts worth nearly a combined $2 billion, according to a Defense Department statement. The Navy awarded Pratt & Whitney a $1.5 […]
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Delivers First AN/SPY-6(V) Air And Missile Defense Radar Ahead of Live Target Testing
Raytheon [RTN] delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) array to the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii for use in an upcoming initial radar […]
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CongressMarine Aviation Chief: Readiness Improving But Slowly
The Marine Corps’ aviation chief said July 6 that his service’s well-publicized aviation readiness problems are improving but that progress is not fast enough and is endangered by another potential budget […]
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Air ForceAt Least 8,400 U.S. Troops Will Stay In Afghanistan Into 2017
At least 8,400 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan through the end of the Obama administration, which will nearly coincide with the conflict’s 15th anniversary. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday […]
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InternationalSaab Wins $27.6 Million Order For Australian Warship Combat System Sustainment
The Australian government awarded Saab AB a $27.6 million order for sustainment of the combat system on the country’s ANZAC-class frigates through the end of 2017. This is the first […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Begins Deploying New Surveillance Radar On Fire Scout UAV
The Navy has begun deploying a new maritime surveillance radar on the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, according to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The milestone with the Telephonics Corp. […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Oiler, Amphib Contracts to General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls
The Navy June 30 awarded contracts totaling almost $6.3 billion to General Dynamics [GD] National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) and Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] to design and build oiler and […]