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Cyber

Navy Moving Closer To Taking Submarine Training Into The Virtual World

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Friday, July 9th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The Navy has been using virtual worlds to help foster better collaboration and innovation within the undersea fleet. Those efforts are being incorporated into training of submariners and design of the future fleet, Steve Aguiar, virtual worlds program lead at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, R.I., told Defense Daily recently. With the advances being made in Web 2.0, modeling and simulation, computer-aided design, and gaming technologies all coming together in a new capability called virtual worlds, and…

Congress

House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for a third reconciliation bill that includes $60 billion for defense, a figure slightly below the Trump administration’s request to cover Iran war […]

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]