Navy/USMC
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CongressAmos: Marines Lack Ships To Fulfill Shift To Asia-Pacific
The Marine Corps’ top officer said yesterday his service does not have all the ships it needs to in the Asia-Pacific region and, because of scant shipbuilding dollars, may be […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Takes Delivery Of LPD-23
The Navy took delivery yesterday of the most recent San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious transport dock ship, a transfer that was postponed by nearly two months after the manufacturer discovered faulty […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Contracts General Dynamics For USS Miami Fire Repairs
The Navy has awarded a $94-million contract to General Dynamics [GD] to begin advanced planning and procurement for repairing the USS Miami (SSN-755), the Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) attack submarine that […]
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Air ForceHarris Corp. Receives JTRS Certification For Falcon III Radio
Harris Corp.[HRS] Friday said it has received Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Certification for its Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio operating Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) v1.01.1. “JTRS certification is […]
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Homeland Security
Navy Concentrates On Midcourse, Terminal Ballistic Missile Defense
The Navy’s ballistic missile defense priorities are on intercepting an adversary’s ballistic missiles in the midcourse or terminal phase–exactly where the most recent assessment of missile defense programs recommends putting […]
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CongressCarrier Overhauls Jeopardized By Budget Gridlock on Capitol Hill
The refueling and overhaul work on a Navy aircraft carrier would be in jeopardy unless changes are made to a stopgap spending measure for the first six months of fiscal […]
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Navy/USMCNorthrop Grumman Wrapping Up AMDR Far Field Range Testing
Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] follow-on testing of its Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) on its far field range is scheduled to wrap up this month, according to a company program […]
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Air ForceU.S. Should Concentrate On Midcourse BMD, Not Boost Phase, Report Says
The United States should concentrate on midcourse missile defense systems and “stop spending money on boost-phase defense systems of any kind,” said a new, congressionally mandated report released yesterday by […]
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ArmyGTV Will Not Pursue JLTV Protest
General Tactical Vehicles (GTV), a joint venture between General Dynamics Land Systems [GD] and AM General LLC, yesterday said it decided not to pursue a protest of the Army’s Joint […]
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ArmyPersistent Surveillance JLENS Demos Ability To Detect, Track, Swarming Boats
Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) has demonstrated its capability to detect and track swarming boats hundreds of miles away in test scenarios […]