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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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Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

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CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]