Navy/USMC
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Air ForceBoeing Combines Army Rockets With Air Force Bombs To Create Smarter Artillery Option
Boeing [BA] is working to integrate the Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the rocket motors from the Army’s M26 Multiple Launch Rocket System to create a smarter ground-launched […]
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Navy/USMCNavy’s UAV For Carriers Lacks Oversight, GAO Says
The Navy’s strategy for developing and fielding an unmanned aircraft to operate off aircraft carriers lacks sufficient oversight and also contains financial and scheduling risks, Congress’s investigative agency said. The […]
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Air Force
Pentagon Orders Seventh Batch Of F-35s
The Pentagon issued a $3.4 billion contract to manufacturer Lockheed Martin [LMT] late Friday afternoon for the seventh batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, just days away from the end […]
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Navy/USMC
Raytheon Successfully Tests PERM For Marine Corps
Raytheon [RTN] announced on Thursday that is has successfully competed two Guide to Hit tests of its Precision Extended Range Munition (PERM) for the Marine Corps. Normal.dotm 0 0 1 […]
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Navy/USMC
Alt-POM Planning Considered Impact to Acquisition, Still Leaves Some Risks
The Marine Corps has finished its alternate budget planning drills but has not formally submitted its “alternate program objective memorandum” to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the assistant deputy […]
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Navy/USMC
BAE Finishes Survivability Testing For MPC, Hopes For Land Characterization Funding
BAE Systems earlier this month finished survivability characterization and testing on its Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC) and hopes the Marine Corps may be able to fund the lone remaining test […]
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Navy/USMC
LRLAP Completes Final Live-Fire Test, Begins Safety Qualification Process
The Navy’s Long-Range Land Attack Projectile completed its final qualification testing earlier this month and is undergoing safety testing this week, in an effort to receive its safety certification from […]
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ArmyBoeing’s Phantom Badger ITV Earning Transportability Certifications With Army, Navy
Boeing’s [BA] Phantom Works division is showing off its Phantom Badger internally transportable vehicle after it completed more than 5,000 miles of durability testing this summer and continues to gain […]
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Air Force
Bell-Boeing Develops Air Filter That Extends V-22 Engine Life
The Bell Helicopter-Boeing [BA] tandem that develops the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey helped create an air filter-like device that could “double or triple” the lives of V-22 engines by filtering out […]
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Navy/USMC
Marine Experimental Detachment Helps Keep CAC2S, G/ATOR Costs Down
With two major acquisition projects moving forward–the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) and the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)–the Marine Corps’ Program Executive Office for Land Systems believes an […]