Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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The Marine Corps' new CH-53K helicopter showed "significant effectiveness, suitability and survivability improvements" when compared to the legacy CH-53E helicopter, according to the "controlled unclassified information" version of the Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation's annual report.
The Navy's new CMV-22B tiltrotor aircraft that will deliver cargo to aircraft carriers is "not operationally suitable," according to the "controlled unclassified information" version of the Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation's annual report.
The new VH-92A presidential helicopter is not "operationally suitable" for contingency operation missions, according to the "controlled unclassified information" version of the Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation's annual report.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger stressed today that the capabilities the Marine Corps is pursuing as part of its Force Design 2030 effort are not limited to use in any specific theater.
The Navy's plan to improve the infrastructure at its public shipyards received a significant increase in the final fiscal year 2022 spending package, released early Wednesday morning.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, called on the U.S. to build three Virginia-class attack submarines a year Wednesday at the Submarine Industrial Base Council’s Supplier Days event.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not changed the Defense Department's calculus that China is the nation's "pacing threat" and requires a high level of investment, lawmakers and analysts believe.
The first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald Ford (CVN-78) has completed its first planned incremental availability and is preparing for its first deployment later this year, the Navy announced Tuesday.
The Marine Corps will redesignate the 3rd Marine Regiment to the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment in Hawaii later this week, Gen. Eric Smith, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, told reporters Monday.
The Navy's CMV-22B has reached initial operational capability, the service announced Friday.
SAN DIEGO -- Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries will start to erect the Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-80) in April, the first aircraft carrier built completely with digital modeling.
SAN DIEGO -- Congress needs the Defense Department to submit the Chairman's Risk Assessment to help lawmakers make budgetary decisions, Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) a member of the House Armed Services Committee's seapower and projection forces subcommittee and a former surface warfare officer, said Thursday.
Steve Dobos, the owner of Texas-based fabricated and machined metal products company Butler Weldments, has been receiving a lot of calls recently.
Huntington Ingalls Industries remains confident in its unmanned systems business despite the current uncertainty and delays in contracting for unmanned programs, company executives said Thursday during HII's fourth quarter 2021 earnings call.
The Marine Corps' first Marine Littoral Regiment, which is currently under development, will be "fully operationally capable" by next year, Brig. Gen. Ben Watson, the commanding general of the service's warfighting laboratory, said Thursday.
The U.S. has "no margin for error" in its nuclear triad modernization as both Russia and China increasingly emerge as adversaries, Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, the Navy's director for strategic systems programs, said Wednesday.
The Navy has struggled to adequately perform submarine intermediate maintenance periods and record and analyze data associated with those periods, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said Tuesday the service is modernizing its logistics capabilities at too slow a pace.
The Navy completed the digital twin models of all four public shipyards in October 2021, a significant step in the service's 20-year Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, a Navy spokesman told Inside Defense Friday.
The Navy's Operation Cattle Drive has reduced redundant systems during the first year of the effort to improve the service's information technology infrastructure, a top Navy IT official told Inside Defense Tuesday.