Navy/USMC

By Geoff Fein A pilot program to improve the way companies take advantage of the Navy’s Software, Hardware Asset Reuse Enterprise (SHARE) repository is set to go live in March. […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s DDG-1000 destroyer program is poised to breach cost-controls set by Congress requiring it to be canceled or recertified process, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of a congressional panel dug in their heels yesterday on their opposing stances on whether Congress should continue funding a jet engine program over which […]

By Geoff Fein The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) said he is happy with the Navy’s fiscal year 2011 budget, but the service continues to deal with both the rising […]

By Emelie Rutherford President Barack Obama’s budget request to Congress for the Marine Corps calls for keeping alive yet delaying the once-troubled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) effort, which was scrutinized […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s $16 billion FY ’11 budget request for shipbuilding includes funding for two Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), two Virginia-class submarines and two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. The […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy Friday took a step into the battlespace of the future as the service officially opened the doors to the new Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM), where […]

By Emelie Rutherford House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call to freeze some Pentagon funding received a cool reception from many of her congressional colleagues yesterday. Still, President Barack Obama’s exclusion of […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s request for proposals (RFP) for the FY ’10 Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) competition stresses cost and affordability but places less weight on total ownership cost, […]

By Emelie Rutherford Defense analysts said yesterday they do not expect the Pentagon to propose major weapon-system cuts in the fiscal year 2011 budget request and Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) […]