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Navy/USMC

Navy To Spend $21 Billion To Modernize Public Shipyards Over 20 Years, Unconcerned On LCS Deployments

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

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Navy To Spend $21 Billion To Modernize Public Shipyards Over 20 Years, Unconcerned On LCS Deployments

Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. (Photo: GAO)

The U.S. Navy is planning to spend $21 billion over 20 years to modernize and optimize the four public shipyards to help sustain a larger Navy, top Navy officials told a Senate panel yesterday.James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition (ASN RDA), and Vice Adm. William Merz, Deputy Chief Of Naval Operations for Warfare Systems (OPNAV N9), confirmed to the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on Seapower that the service is planning to recover maintenance in…

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]

Army

Lawmakers Request DoD Briefing On Army’s Planned Cuts To Aviation Procurement

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has sent a letter asking the Pentagon for a briefing on the potential industrial base impacts as a result of the Army’s planned cuts […]

Congress

CENTCOM Looking To Lessons Learned From Use Of LUCAS Drones

U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) is looking to lessons learned from its use of Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones by Phoenix-based SpektreWorks, according to CENTCOM head Adm. Brad Cooper. […]

Army

Hegseth Says DoD Open To Reviewing Army’s Planned Cuts To Legacy Helicopter Procurement

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told lawmakers the Pentagon is open to reviewing the Army’s planned procurement cuts to its legacy manned aviation fleet. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), ranking member […]