If the Navy's annual shipbuilding budget going forward is reduced to prior-year levels, several shipyards would face possible closures by the mid-2020s, according to a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office.
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If the Navy's annual shipbuilding budget going forward is reduced to prior-year levels, several shipyards would face possible closures by the mid-2020s, according to a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office.
The Pentagon has no near-term plans to submit to Congress a list of which Navy programs will be on the chopping block if the department gets hit with sequestration cuts in fiscal year 2016, according to acquisition chief Frank Kendall.
The chief of naval operations is urging the three military services to band together to extend supplemental wartime funding, despite the Pentagon's recent decision to begin phasing overseas contingency operations costs into the base budget beginning in fiscal year 2017.
The chairman of the influential House Appropriations defense subcommittee is requesting a comprehensive list from the Navy of what the service would have to cut if funding drops to sequestration levels.
The phased modernization plan approved by congressional appropriators to upgrade the Navy's aging fleet of cruisers will only extend the ships for 10 years past their current service life, according to the Navy secretary.
The chief executive officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries warned this week that further sequestration cuts could put the George Washington aircraft carrier back on the chopping block.
In a bid to increase competition and drive down costs, the Navy is out with a complex new acquisition strategy for work on the next-generation amphibious ship, the new big-deck amphibious assault ship and the first six replacement oilers, a Navy spokeswoman confirmed Feb. 20.
Lockheed Martin is working on an undersea-launched version of the company's Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, with an eye toward an upcoming competition for the second increment of the Navy's offensive anti-surface warfare capability.
The Navy on Wednesday awarded Huntington Ingalls Newport News a long-awaited $244 million contract for the first year of advanced planning to refuel the aircraft carrier George Washington.
The next San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will likely incorporate some of the new systems and capabilities the Navy is planning for its next-generation amphibious ship, LX(R), according to a top Marine Corps official.
As the Navy resubmits a plan to mothball half its cruiser fleet, detailed in its fiscal year 2016 budget submission, the chairman of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee is vowing to defeat the proposal.
The Navy's fixed-wing aircraft, including the controversial Joint Strike Fighter, and several tactical missile programs took a hit in the service's fiscal year 2016 budget request, while shipbuilding and rotary-wing aircraft prevailed, the service announced on Monday.
Ingalls Shipbuilding and General Dynamics NASSCO will compete for a single Navy contract that bundles work on the next-generation amphibious warship, the new big-deck amphibious assault ship and the first six replacement oilers, a service official confirmed to Inside the Navy.
A draft outline of the Obama administration's fiscal year 2016 defense budget submission shows that the Navy will request $161 billion overall, an $11.8 billion increase from the previous year, including funds to build a new amphibious transport dock and an additional P-8A aircraft, according to documents obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The chief of naval operations is looking to increase oversight of the cost and schedule parameters for the service's procurement efforts.
On the heels of continued criticism from the Pentagon's top weapons tester, the Navy is arguing that the plan to defer a key test of the new Ford-class aircraft carrier's structural strength from the lead ship to the second ship in the class is crucial to maintaining an 11-carrier fleet.
The Navy's surface connector replacement will be a modified Landing Craft Utility vessel, the service officially announced last week.
The Navy should reevaluate the need for at-sea, "skin-to-skin" operations between the Joint High Speed Vessel and the Mobile Landing Platform after interface tests encountered challenges and could not be completed, the Pentagon's top weapons tester has concluded in his annual report.
The Navy's first next-generation amphibious assault ship likely won't complete operational testing in time to reach initial operational capability on schedule due to a budget shortfall and late delivery of the vessel, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester.
The Pentagon's top weapons tester is tagging the Navy for failing to comply with a direction from the deputy defense secretary to conduct at-sea testing of the self-defense systems on the DDG-51 Flight III destroyers with the Air and Missile Defense Radar and Aegis Combat System, according to his annual report.