Navy/USMC
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Business/FinancialA Year After EPIC Award BAE Looks To Cut Costs, Time On Ship C4I Work
By Geoff Fein In the year since BAE Systems won the Navy’s Enterprise Platform Integration Contract (EPIC) to provide technical expertise for integrating and installing command, control, communications, computers and […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Continues Verifying AARGM, OPEVAL Planned For Summer
By Geoff Fein The Navy earlier this month conducted another successful test shot of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM), proving out systems that will improve the capability of the […]
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Business/FinancialGeneral Atomics Gets $22 Million Navy Award For Railgun ACL
By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded General Atomics a follow-on task order valued at $22 million for the completion of an Advanced Containment Launcher (ACL) […]
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CongressYoung: Study If DDG-1000 Hull Is Right For Future Cruiser
By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s outgoing purchasing czar said analysis of the Navy’s future cruiser should begin "right away," and maintained the service’s previous plan to base the ship on […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Takes Delivery of Makin Island, Most Advanced Big Deck Amphib
By Geoff Fein PASCAGOULA, Miss.–The Navy last week took delivery of the newest most advanced big deck amphibious ship, LHD-8, after running several months behind schedule and hundreds of millions […]
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Navy/USMCYoung Sees Fixed-Price Contracts For Navy Destroyers Under New Plan
By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s outgoing acquisition czar said he expects most of the DDG-1000 and DDG-51 destroyers the Navy plans to buy under a new setup will have fixed-price […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Cancels Boeing’s Harpoon Block III Due To Cost, Schedule
The Navy on Friday canceled Boeing‘s [BA] Harpoon Block III weapon system Program due to cost overruns and a delay in the testing schedule, the service said. The Block III, […]
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Air ForceUSJFCOM’s Operational Analysis Center Turns Lessons Learned Into Actionable Items
By Ann Roosevelt The U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (JFCOM) Joint Center for Operational Analysis (JCOA) produces lessons learned and recommendations for change to inform the joint force and combatant commanders […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Stands By EMALS As Aircraft Launch System For CVN-78
By Geoff Fein Just a few weeks after the Navy acknowledged it was looking at the impact of retuning to steam catapults on CVN-78, the service has reaffirmed its commitment […]
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Business/FinancialDespite Rumors of Its Demise, EMALS Very Much Alive, Official Says
By Geoff Fein The next generation aircraft launch system being designed for CVN-78 is moving ahead, and despite some issues with cost and schedule, Navy officials believe the capability will […]