Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy Announces New Public-Private Partnership To Build More Sub Manufacturing Facilities
The Navy on Friday announced it is partnering with private industry in an acquisition of the Alabama Shipyard in Mobile, Ala., to construct additional submarine manufacturing facilities. This specifically includes […]
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Navy/USMCHAC-D Chairman Criticizes SECNAV For Submarine Cost Growth, Cites $17 Billion SSN Shoftfall
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, heavily criticized Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro about significant cost overruns and delays in submarine and ship […]
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Navy/USMCNorthrop Grumman Demonstrates MQ-4C Navigation In Arctic Circle
Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday announced it demonstrated the ability of a navigation system used by a MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle to operate at high latitudes within the Arctic […]
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Business/FinancialL3Harris CEO Points to Company Investments in Startups Due to Shield Capital Partnership
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—L3Harris Technologies [LHX] has leveraged startup firms’ technology advances due to a Shield Capital-L3Harris partnership announced in March, 2022, L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik told reporters at the Air […]
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Navy/USMCFranchetti Argues NAVPLAN 2024 Stretch Goals Are ‘Realistic’
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti said the goals she is pushing the Navy to achieve by 2027 in her recently released Navigation Plan (NAVPLAN) 2024 are realistic, even […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySkydio Official: U.S. Military Supply of Small Drones ‘Woefully Inadequate’
The Pentagon’s supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed […]
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Business/FinancialFairbanks Morse To Acquire Rolls-Royce Naval Propulsors And Handling Business
Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD) on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire Rolls-Royce’s naval business that supplies propellers, waterjets, and mission bay handling systems in a deal that expands its […]
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Navy/USMCDARPA Investigating Counter-UUV Defenses
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency published a notice on Sept. 11 looking for “innovative proposals” for its Sync program to counter unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). DARPA said this Sync […]
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Navy/USMCCNO Franchetti Releases 2024 NAVPLAN With 2027 Focus
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Lisa Franchetti used her Navigation Plan (NAVPLAN) to target achieving readiness for potential war with China by 2027. The NAVPLAN is a strategic guidance […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program Aims to Rejuvenate Lab Capacity for Software
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–As the F-35 program aims to deliver a “fully combat capable” fighter next year with the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) software upgrade–the foundation for dozens of envisioned Block 4 […]