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Senate Panel Seeks New ‘Innovation Centers’ To Assist Navy Open Architecture

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

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Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) are directing the Navy to look into standing up a new development mechanism to further improve the sea service’s efforts to stand up more open architecture (OA)-based systems. As part of the committee’s draft of the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill, panel members have requested Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to provide a report to the congressional defense committees on the new strategy, to be included in the Navy’s upcoming FY ’13…

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Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Urge Trump Admin Support For Marines’ JLTV Second Supplier Effort

Wisconsin’s GOP congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to support legislative language enabling the Marine Corps to potentially bring in a second Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) supplier. The […]

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Senate’s CR Has Ship Construction Exemption, Forgoes White House’s Battleship, Munitions Requests

The Senate on Sunday released a bipartisan stopgap funding proposal to keep the government open through December 11, which would also secure additional funds to support ongoing shipbuilding efforts and […]

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U.S. Fighter Fleet Will Expand By 2040 But More Stealth Aircraft Will Mean Less Availability, CBO Says

The number of fighter aircraft in the U.S. military inventory will decline over the next few years before expanding to a greater number than currently, but their availability for operational […]

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White House Details ‘Concerns’ With Shipbuilding, Spaced-Based Interceptor Oversight In House’s NDAA

The White House has detailed “a number of concerns” with the newly-passed House version of the next defense policy bill, to include the legislation’s limits on procuring Navy ships built […]