Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMCNew Marine Warfighting Capabilities Head Wants Lighter Trucks, More Technology
By Emelie Rutherford The new head of the command that develops Marine Corps warfighting capabilities ticked off a technology wish-list yesterday, calling for everything from lighter armored vehicles and more-advanced […]
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Air ForcePANAMAX ’08 Focuses On Multinational Defense of The Panama Canal
Exercise Fuerzas Aliades PANAMAX 2008 involves military and civilian forces from 20 nations to increase multinational interoperability and support training requirements to ensure rapid crisis response and provide threat protection […]
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Business/FinancialBuilder’s Trials Show Freedom Is A Capable Warship, SECNAV Says
By Geoff Fein After several years of cost increases, delays, efforts to renegotiate contracts, and cancellation of two ships, the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program appears to be heading […]
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Navy/USMCONR Wants Help In Shaping Plans For Newly Funded Research Projects
By Emelie Rutherford Navy researchers want industry to help them refine solicitations for 14 forthcoming enabling-capability projects (ECs) with more than $380 million in recently secured funding. Joseph Lawrence, the […]
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Business/FinancialGAO Denies Lockheed Martin Protest of BAMS Award To Northrop Grumman
By Geoff Fein The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Friday denied Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] protest of a $1.6 billion Navy contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Broad Area Maritime […]
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Business/FinancialAARGM Scores Successful Test, Readies For Milestone C
Alliant Techsystems [ATK], the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force this month successfully completed another missile firing of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air […]
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Business/FinancialFirst-of-Class Builds, Rising Material Costs Contribute To Volatility In Navy Shipbuilding
By Geoff Fein While it seems much of the focus on the Navy these days is on the volatility in shipbuilding, the Navy is delivering between six and seven ships […]
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Business/FinancialEMALS Catapult For CVN-78 Proceeding Through Testing, Appears Back On Track
By Geoff Fein Testing on the giant motor generator that will be used to power the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on the Navy’s next-generation carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, […]
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Air ForceATK Opens FY ’09 With Strong Results Despite Space Glitch
By Calvin Biesecker Alliant Techsystems [ATK] yesterday posted strong earnings and sales to open its new fiscal year, powered by record results in its ammunition business that more than offset […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman, Navy Working Out Best Path Forward Following Report On Sub Welds
By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–The Navy and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) are still working out how the service and the company will proceed forward following a report […]