Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCLockheed’s Vector Hawk Drone Launched From Unmanned Sub
Lockheed Martin [LMT[ recently launched its Vector Hawk small unmanned aircraft from an unmanned submarine for the first time, the company said Sept. 28. During the test, which occurred at […]
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Navy/USMCBAE’s First Amphibious Combat Vehicle Surfaces With New 690-HP Engine
Marine Corps officials on Tuesday got a look at the first Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) that has rolled off the BAE Systems production line. The eight-wheeled, 690-horsepower armored personnel carrier […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Seeks To Rapidly Prototype, Speed Non-Developmental Gear To The Field
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The Marine Corps is experimenting with ways to rapidly “buy, try and decide” on non-development equipment outside the traditional plodding acquisition process. Large multi-billion-dollar […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Contracts For New Carrier-Based Drone
The Navy has awarded two of the four contracts it plans to give industry for the recently revamped MQ-25 unmanned aircraft program. Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] received one-year […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Reviewing Delivery Timing For New Ford Aircraft Carrier
The U.S. Navy may have to change the delivery schedule for the first Ford-class aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), because the program continues to grapple with technical […]
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Air ForceNavy Exploring Successor To Sub-Launched Nuclear Missile
The U.S. Navy is in the “very early phases” of exploring what the successor to its Trident II D-5 ballistic missile will look like, a service official said Sept. 22. […]
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Navy/USMCU.S. Marine Corps Successfully Tests GD-Built Aviation Command And Control System
The U.S. Marine Corps successfully completed an operational test of the General Dynamics [GD]-built Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) during a Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course […]
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Air ForceDunford: Military Can’t Buy Its Way Out Of Modernization Hole
A lack of predictable and sufficient funding for modernization has left the military attempting to dig itself out of a technological deficit it cannot spend its way out of, according […]
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CyberNavy Awards $609 Million To $1 Billion In Cybersecurity Research And Technology Integration
The Navy awarded seven companies separate three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts totaling $609 million to provide cyberspace science, research, engineering, and technology integration, the service said Thursday. Each contract also […]
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Navy/USMCBoeing Formally Challenges Denmark Fighter Procurement Decision
Boeing [BA] said Thursday it took the first step toward bringing a formal legal challenge of the Danish Ministry of Defense’s evaluation regarding the country’s next fighter jet. Boeing submitted […]