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Navy/USMCSenate Bill Funds Frigate But Wary of Second Yard Plans
The Senate appropriations committee draft fiscal year 2022 defense bill would fund the Navy’s request of $1.088 billion to build the third Constellation-class frigate, but is wary of plans to […]
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ArmyDoD IG Auditing IVAS Program, Army Officials Note Resolution Issue Being Worked Out
The Pentagon’s inspector general is conducting an audit of the Army’s potential $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset program. “The objective of this audit is to determine whether […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Looking into Acquisition Strategy; Possible Used, Commercial Derivative Aircraft for E-4B Replacement
The Air Force is to forge an acquisition strategy for the Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC), which is to replace the aging Air Force E-4B National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) […]
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ArmySikorsky Sees New Helos Focusing on Indo-Pacific
The head of Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky sees the Pentagon focus on the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) region in the specifications for new helicopters it is producing and competing on. “For […]
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Air ForceFollow-On to GBU-28 ‘Bunker Buster’ Released in Flight Test
A 5,000-pound, GPS-guided GBU-72–an envisioned follow-on to the Raytheon Technologies’ [RTX] GBU-28 “bunker buster”–had its first release on July 23 and another successful firing from a U.S. Air Force 96th […]
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CyberCountries Agree To Continue Cooperating To Combat Ransomware
International participants in a White House-led virtual meeting held this week to strengthen global cooperation in preventing and responding to ransomware agreed on the need to continue efforts to improve […]
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Business/FinancialLockheed Martin Chief Proposes ‘Firefighting-As-A-Service’ To Government Customers
As Lockheed Martin [LMT] marches down a path to better integrate key commercial technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence into its products for the warfighter, the company’s boss has […]
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ArmyAs Army Black Hawks Ramp Down, Sikorsky Looks To Lifetime Upgrades
Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Sikorsky is looking to long term upgrades and modernization of the UH-60 Black Hawk over the coming decades while the Army conducts a last multi-year contract and […]
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Air ForceAir Mobility Command to Study Requirement for Commercial Tankers
The Air Force is to study service tanking needs to inform a possible, upcoming solicitation for commercial tankers. “The objective of this work is to complete a report suitable for […]
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Homeland SecurityWhite House Kicks Off International Counter-Ransomware Initiative
The White House National Security Council this week is hosting more than 30 countries in a virtual meeting aimed at “accelerating cooperation” to combat ransomware worldwide, part of the Biden […]
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