Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNavy: Delay From LHA-9 To LHA-10 Will Increase Cost And Impact Industrial Base
Navy officials on Wednesday admitted the Navy’s current plan to procure the future America-class amphibious assault ship, LHA-10, about a decade after LHA-9 would increase costs and impact the industrial […]
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Navy/USMCGAO Finds Navy SIOP Dry Dock Costs Increased Over 400 Percent
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently found the cost for the Navy to renovate its dry docks has grown by over 400 percent as part of a decades-long effort to […]
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Navy/USMCPappano Says Navy Evaluating Up To 5 Ohio SSBN Sub Extensions, Also SSGN Extensions
The Navy’s top officer for procuring and sustaining the Navy’s nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) last week confirmed the service is currently evaluating short-term service life extensions of up to […]
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Navy/USMCCNO Argues Decommissioning Ships Goes To Fund Maximizing Weapons Production Lines
The Navy’s top officer this week argued the service’s fiscal year 2023 request to retire 24 ships aims to redirect resources from expensive ship fixes and operating costs to increased […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Informs Congress Of Nunn-McCurdy Cost Breach Tied To Cutting LCS ASW Modules
The Navy on Friday notified Congress about a significant but not critical cost breach in the Littoral Combat System’s (LCS) module program caused by canceling the anti-submarine (ASW) mission package. […]
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Navy/USMCCNO: Private Sub Shipyards Maintenance Work Over Cost And Schedule
The Navy’s top officer Thursday castigated two companies that build Navy submarines for underperforming on contracted maintenance work on attack submarines. “Based on the fact that we continue to build […]
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Navy/USMCColumbia, Dreadnought Subs ‘Bounced Back’ From Faulty Missile Tubes, U.S. Admiral Says
Faulty missile tubes that earlier consumed months of schedule margin on the next-generation U.S. nuclear-armed, ballistic missile submarines are not pacing the schedule for the boats anymore, the admiral in […]
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Navy/USMCBAE Systems Eyeing Expanded ACV Family Of Vehicles For Marines’ ARV, See ‘Significant Cost Savings’
BAE Systems is eyeing the Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) effort as an opportunity to build out additional variants of its own Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), with a company […]
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Navy/USMCMarines To Use ESBs, EPFs, and Commercial Vessels Until LAW Ready
The Marine Corps is exploring several ways to move groups of Marines around the Indo-Pacific region while waiting for the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW), which been pushed back several years. […]
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Unmanned SystemsIn Recent DoD Counter-Drone Demo With HPM Systems, Vendors Turned In Varying Results
Companies participating in a demonstration last month of their respective ground-based high-power microwave (HPM) solutions to counter small drones had varying degrees of success, the team lead for the testing […]
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