Navy/USMC
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Air ForceFinal F-35 Testing Slips A Year While Program Chiefs Justify Central Management
Final operational test and planning for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been pushed back to mid-2018, about a year later than expected, because of ongoing developmental delays with the […]
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CyberGD Wins $46.7 Million Navy IT Services Support Contract
The Navy awarded General Dynamics [GD] a $46.7 million contract to provide information technology services and security assistance support to the Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVUP WSS) […]
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Air ForceShipbuilders Win Out as Senate Appropriators Add Funds For Icebreaker to Spending Bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s $574.5 billion defense spending bill, which the defense subcommittee (SAC-D) approved Tuesday, contained a big surprise: $1 billion in Navy shipbuilding funds to accelerate construction of […]
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Navy/USMCBath Iron Works Delivers DDG-1000 to Navy
The Navy on Friday accepted delivery of the first in a class of futuristic destroyers, the future USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000). The ship, built by General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Prepping For Another Round of Longbow Hellfire Tests
This year the Navy will conduct another series of tests of a modified, vertically-launched Longbow Hellfire missile before integrating it on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in 2017, a program […]
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CyberNavy Cyber Strategy Is Resiliency, Official Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—When a Navy task force late last summer finished a year-long enterprise-wide review of the service’s organization, resourcing and positioning for its cyber security needs, a key finding […]
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BudgetIn FY ’18, Navy to Choose Between Lockheed Martin and Austal for Frigate Program
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Due to the planned procurement of only one Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in fiscal year 2018, the Navy aims to award a contract for the frigate program and […]
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Responds To Navy’s Immediate Need For Affordable New Weapons
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Missile manufacturers anticipate Navy requirements for new weapon capabilities will come directly from deployed fleets, emerging as urgent operational needs rather than traditional acquisition programs. Rather […]
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Navy/USMCNewport News Anticipates Big Savings From CVN-80 Digital Design
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding plans to use digital-only blueprints for the USS Enterprise (CVN-80), an investment that the company hopes will save more than 15 percent, a […]
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Business/FinancialSaab Presents Anti-IED Underwater Robot
Saab AB on Tuesday unveiled Sea Wasp, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) aimed at identifying, relocating, and neutralizing underwater improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Presented at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition […]