Navy/USMC
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Navy/USMC
Navy Drops Two Fire Scouts In FY ’09, But Program Continues Forward
In its FY ’09 budget, the Navy reduced its quantity buy of Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Fire Scout vertical takeoff unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV) due to competing requirements, according to a […]
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Army
Army, Navy Fire Scouts: Similar Look, But Treading Different Paths
Looking across the production line at Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Mississippi facility, it’s hard for anyone to tell the difference between the Army and Navy variants of the MQ-8B Fire Scout. […]
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Congress
Navy’s $4.5 Billion In Unmet Needs Includes Ships, Aircraft And Weapon Enhancements
By Geoff Fein The Navy faces $4.5 billion in unmet funding needs for FY ’08, which includes funding for ship maintenance, weapons enhancement, and aircraft improvements, Chief of Naval Operations […]
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Navy/USMC
Navy To Shoot Down Errant Spy Satellite With SM-3
By Geoff Fein The Navy will use a Standard Missile (SM)-3 launched from an Aegis-capable ship in the Pacific, in hopes of hitting an out of control spy satellite re-entering […]
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Navy/USMC
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Looking At Sharing Work Between Yards
By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.–The creation of Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding should afford the new enterprise the opportunity to share work among its sites, get a more effective deployment […]
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Navy/USMC
Tenth LPD-17 Tops Marine Corps List of Unmet Needs
By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps has $3.01 billion in unmet needs for FY ’08, which includes $1.7 billion for a 10th San Antonio-class LPD-17, Humvees and aircraft, according to […]
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Congress
England Tells Senators FY ’10 Budget May Take On Key Navy, Air Force Issues
By Jen DiMascio The budget for fiscal year 2010 may begin to take on the affordability of the Navy’s plan to buy and sustain 313 ships and the Air Force’s […]
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Navy/USMC
Inspection Finds Signs of Bowing In Traverse Beams On LCS-2
By Geoff Fein During a recent inspection of General Dynamics‘ [GD] Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), bowing was discovered in the transverse beams that support the ship’s flight deck, according to […]
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Navy/USMC
LCS May Need To Take On Feel of Aircraft Acquisition Effort, SECNAV Says
By Geoff Fein While the Navy reworks the acquisition plan for its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), moving the first buy of six to FY ’13, the real question is how […]
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Army
Army, Navy Fire Scouts: Similar Look, But Treading Different Paths
By Geoff Fein Looking across the production line at Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Mississippi facility, it’s hard for anyone to tell the difference between the Army and Navy variants of the […]