Navy/USMC
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Air ForceBillions For MRAPs, Armored Vehicles In Obama War Funding Plan
By Emelie Rutherford The Obama administration released last Thursday night its request to Congress for $75.5 billion in supplemental-war funding, including $2.7 billion for mine-resistant vehicles, $9.8 billion for armored […]
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Navy/USMCPresident To Nominate Robert Work For Under Secretary of the Navy
By Geoff Fein President Obama yesterday announced his intention to nominate Robert Work, a former Marine colonel and aide to then-Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, for Under Secretary of the Navy. […]
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CyberNavy May Need To Rethink IT Acquisition
By Geoff Fein As the rate of technology improvement shortens the time between advances in areas such as processing speed, the services are going to have to rethink the way […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Releases CANES RFP For Shipboard Common Computing Environment
By Geoff Fein The Navy last week issued its anticipated request for proposals (RFP) for the Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Services (CANES), a directed approach to reduce infrastructure and increase […]
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Business/Financial
Navy Issues STUAS TIER II RFP
By Geoff Fein The Navy Friday issued its long-awaited request for proposal (RFP) for the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS)/Tier II. STUAS will fill a critical gap identified by […]
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CongressTaylor Happy Gates Wants DDG-1000 End, Awaits Hill Budget Vetting
By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval panel in Congress said yesterday in an interview he is pleased Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to end the DDG-1000 destroyer line, […]
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Business/Financial
Gates Recommends End To VH-71 Program
By Geoff Fein In a surprise, Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday called for terminating Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] VH-71 presidential helicopter, including the first batch of aircraft that some believed would […]
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Air Force
Lawmakers Balk At Proposed Hits To Missile Defense, F-22, FCS
By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle launched immediate campaigns yesterday to reverse Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ proposed reduction in missile-defense funding, termination of the F-22 jet’s […]
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Homeland Security
China: Rising Or Rampaging?
Sino Secret Ballistic Missile May Be ‘Kill Weapon’ Targeting American Aircraft Carriers Obama Meets With Hu, Seeks Friendly Relations While a few observers still wonder why China is arming itself […]
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ArmyNavistar Protests Government Evaluation In Ongoing M-ATV Competition
By Emelie Rutherford Navistar Defense LLC, one of the companies competing to build a new all-terrain Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (M-ATV), filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office […]