Navy/USMC
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Budget
House Appropriators ‘Incensed’ By LCS Retirements, Explain Shipbuilding Decisions And Budget Cuts In Report
The House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) report on its draft of the fiscal year 2025 defense appropriations bill expressed severe displeasure with how the Navy is decommissioning Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) […]
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Congress
Resumption of Unrestricted V-22 Flight Operations Not Expected Until Mid-2025
The V-22 will not likely return to unrestricted flight operations until the middle of next year, Vice Adm. Carl Chebi, the head of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), said on […]
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Congress
White House Supports HASC’s NDAA, But Opposes Virginia-Class Sub Add, GOP Policy Measures
The White House on Tuesday said it “strongly supports” the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the next defense policy bill, while noting its opposition to the legislation’s support for […]
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Navy/USMC
White House Opposes Navy Provisions In Draft House NDAA Bill
The Biden administration on Tuesday detailed what Navy provisions it opposes in the House’s draft FY 2025 defense authorization bill, which focused on ship procurement funding and restrictions on ship […]
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Business/Financial
General Dynamics Electric Boat Files Lawsuit in Submarine Case
General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat has filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court against a retired welder and his wife–Mickey and Joanne Skobic–who worked at a Jacksonville company, Nuflo, Inc., […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy Seeks Industry Info On Long Endurance Small Unmanned Surface Vessels For Special Warfare
The Navy recently published a Request For Information (RFI) seeking industry information on technologies related to long endurance small unmanned surface vessels (LE sUSVs). “The Government wants to understand the […]
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Navy/USMC
RTX Nabs $668 Million Award To Build More SPY-6 Navy Radars
The Navy awarded RTX [RTX] a $678 million modification on June 7 to exercise options for additional AN/SPY-6(V) radar hardware production. The company underscored this is the third option under […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Route Planning for Ukrainian Drones Key to Avoiding Russian Jamming
Nearly two and a half years after Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the countries are vying to see whose “observe, orient, decide and act” cycle–the late […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
U.S. Army TITAN and MSS to Complement Each Other
The U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN), the service’s new intelligence ground station, and the Maven Smart System (MSS) “absolutely complement each other,” Shyam Sankar, the chief technology […]
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Navy/USMC
BAE Details $95 Million Contract For P-8A Electronic Warfare Pods
The Navy in March awarded BAE Systems a $95 million contract for research, development and low-rate initial production on electronic warfare (EW) Advanced Survivability Pods for the P-8A Poseidon aircraft, […]
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