Pentagon
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Navy/USMCNavy Acquisition Chief Insists Need For 52 LCSs Is Firm
The Navy’s top acquisition official said Thursday the service’s requirement for 52 Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) is “firm,” and would not comment on reports a day earlier saying the Office […]
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ArmyLockheed Martin Performs Important Aegis BMD Flight Test Tracking Exercise
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it successfully performed Wednesday an Aegis Ashore missile defense exercise called “flight test tracking exercise No. 18,” which a company official said included multiple unitary short […]
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PentagonKendall: Congress’ Spending Plan Hurts R&D When DoD Should Be Investing In It Further
Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall spoke at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ SciTech 2014 conference Wednesday about maintaining the military’s technical superiority in a time of constrained budgets, noting […]
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PentagonNDIA Kicks Off Planning for Healthy Industrial Base Amid Lower Budgets
The National Defense Industrial Association has teamed up with a former Pentagon expert in industrial base issues to develop a plan for maintaining a healthy defense industry in a time […]
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CongressLawmakers Propose Bill to Prevent Pentagon from Moving Office of Net Assessment
A handful of lawmakers are pushing back against the Pentagon’s plans to realign the long-standing Office of Net Assessment under the undersecretary of defense for policy, proposing a bill to […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin Predicts GPS III Navigation Payload Delivery By Spring
Lockheed Martin [LMT] plans to receive the first Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite’s navigation payload this spring from payload developer Exelis [XLS] after originally forecasting delivery for early […]
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Air ForceAir Force Awards Contracts For Future Medium Class Stage III ICBM Motor Development
The Air Force in December issued two contracts worth a combined $78 million for demonstrations of a Medium Class Stage III ICBM motor with technologies applicable to multiple future common […]
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PentagonMore Interoperability Needed In Unmanned Systems, Pentagon Says
The Pentagon’s rapid development and deployment of unmanned systems over the last decade has resulted in too many which are incapable of interacting with other platforms or external systems, an […]
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Air ForceNDAA Requires Air Force Plan To Implement New EELV Acquisition Strategy
Language requiring the Air Force secretary to develop a plan to implement a new acquisition strategy for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program made it into the fiscal year […]
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PentagonReport: Increase in Unmanned Systems Will Require Better, More Communications
Research and development in satellite and radio communications, as well as some innovation in the way they are procured, could go a long way in boosting both the capability and […]