Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCWhite House Nominates Franchetti As CNO, Paparo To Indo-Pacific Command
The White House on Friday announced President Biden intends to nominate the next officers to serve as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Vice CNO, Commander of Indo-Pacific Command and Pacific […]
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Navy/USMCTwo Navy Trackers Disagree On Super Hornet Availability Rates
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report found that while the Navy Department uses two separate databases to track aircraft availability the newer one is better at predicting actual flying […]
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Navy/USMCLeidos Nabs $36 Million Mod To Build Four MUUVs
The Navy awarded Leidos [LDOS] a $36 million contract modification exercising an option to build, test and deliver four engineering development model Medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (MUUV). A year ago, […]
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Air ForceBacon Disappointed in Lack of EW Progress in Fiscal 2024 House Defense Authorization Bill
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), the co-chairman of the House Electronic Warfare Working Group and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said on July 18 that he is disappointed […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans To Award New Version Of Low Band Next Gen Jammer EMD Contract In September
The Navy anticipates awarding a new version of the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract for the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band(NGJ-LB), according to a Defense Department reprogramming request for fiscal […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Looks To Move Around MQ-25 Funding Due To EMD Delays
The Navy requested Congress let it move hundreds of millions of dollars related to the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft funds for fiscal year 2023 due to delays in […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans To Issue EMD Contract For Carrier-Based Hypersonic Weapon In Early 2024
A recent Navy notice said the service intends to conduct a competition for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase for an aircraft carrier-based hypersonic weapon program later this year […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad
Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]
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Navy/USMCDoD Establishes Navy Science and Technology Board
The Defense Department said Monday it was establishing a new Department of the Navy Science and Technology (DoN S&T) Board in a notice posted to the Federal Register. Secretary of […]
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Navy/USMCPhilly Shipyard To Study New Hospital Ship Designs
Philly Shipyard won a contract to study designs to replace the two current Navy hospital ships by Leidos’ [LDOS] Gibbs & Cox. The award, announced July 12, will entail Philly […]
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