Navy/USMC
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ArmyReport: Oshkosh JLTV Five Times More Reliable Than Lockheed In Army, Marine Corps Testing
In operational tests by the Army and Marine Corps, the Oshkosh [OSK] Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) drove more than five times as far on average between failures as the […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Awards Contract For Delivery Of Open Architecture Marksmanship Training Simulators
The Marine Corps has awarded Meggitt Training Systems a $7.2 million contract as part of a larger $32.7 million contract to continue development of the service’s virtual small-arms marksmanship training […]
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BudgetFY ’17 Defense Budget Adds $2 Billion Over 5 Years for Tomahawk Program, Extending Production Line
For the past two years, the Tomahawk cruise missile program has faced potential procurement numbers too low to meet the minimum sustaining rate and the threat of a production line […]
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Air ForceIn $582.7 Billion FY ’17 Budget Request, Pentagon to Increase Funding for Undersea Warfare, Munitions
The Defense Department’s fiscal year 2017 budget request will call for a topline of $582.7 billion, hewing closely to the levels set in the Bipartisan Budget Agreement made last year. […]
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Navy/USMCSeapower Committee Chair Sees Shift To Support For Larger Navy, Increased Budgets
The fiscal year 2017 budget, the last for the outgoing Obama administration, is still a week from officially going public, but Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) is predicting the spending plan […]
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Air ForceF-35 Entering IOT&E By August 2017 Is Unrealistic, DOT&E Says
The Defense Department’s chief weapons tester believes the F-35 program’s current schedule of completing system development and demonstration (SDD) and entering initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) by August 2017 […]
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CongressNavy to Award Contracts for LCS Sonar Designs
The Navy is weeks away from announcing the final design for two reduced-weight sonar systems that the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will deploy to hunt submarines, the service’s program manager […]
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Air ForceDOT&E Questions Logic, Legality of DoD’s F-35 Block Buy Approach
The Defense Department’s chief weapons tester questions the logic and legality of the Pentagon’s block buy approach to buying F-35s due to the program’s state of maturity and the law’s […]
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Air ForceProcurement, Modernization Will Cover Most Of Expected Defense Budget Shortfall In FY2017
The Pentagon after releasing its fiscal year 2017 budget on Feb. 9 will find itself needing to come up with $22 billion to cover the difference between its request and […]
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Navy/USMCReport on LCS 5 Casualty Upcoming in Weeks Ahead
The Navy is wrapping up its investigation into the root cause of a combing gear casualty that led the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) to be sidelined in December, and a report […]