Congressional seapower leaders are calling for the Biden administration to name a Navy secretary as soon as possible as the country positions itself to counter China.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Congressional seapower leaders are calling for the Biden administration to name a Navy secretary as soon as possible as the country positions itself to counter China.
The Program Executive Office for Tactical Aircraft Programs will be holding industry days to discuss the office's technological needs.
Leidos is planning on adding 3,000 employees to work on the Navy's Next Generation Enterprise Network program, after winning a contentious $7.7 billion contract for the program.
The vice chair of the House Armed Services committee is calling for more information from the Navy on its recently released Battle Force 2045 shipbuilding plan.
The Navy's Next Generation Jammer Mid Band program, the service's maritime airborne electronic attack modernization effort, has delayed its milestone C decision, which would allow the program to move into its production and development phase.
The United States challenged "excessive maritime claims" from 19 countries in fiscal year 2020, the most prominent -- and common -- of which is China, the Defense Department's annual freedom of navigation report states.
Congressional Democrats have proposed legislation to stop work on the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile program, a program which the Pentagon re-started in 2018.
The Marine Corps' CH-53K helicopter program faces further cost increases due to the overlap between testing and procurement and an unreliable schedule, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.
The Navy's surface ship and submarine fleets both experienced drops in material readiness during fiscal year 2020, according to the Navy Board of Inspection and Survey's annual report.
The United States will test components of its Joint All-Domain Command and Control program with allies this fall, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall said Tuesday at the AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific conference.
The Marine Corps will reduce both uniformed and civilian personnel and re-invest funds derived from divesting legacy systems into new programs as part of its force design efforts, Marine Corps Commandant David Berger wrote in a memo obtained by Inside Defense.
The surge sealift ship crews do not receive enough training for mobility in contested environments, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
The Marine Corps started its initial operational test and evaluation for the new VH-92A presidential helicopter earlier this month, program spokeswoman Megan Wasel told Inside Defense Friday.
The Pentagon's Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy will be released in the coming weeks, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, said Wednesday at an Association of Old Crows event.
Austal USA President Craig Perciavalle has resigned following an investigation into the company's Littoral Combat Ship program, Austal announced today.
The Navy announced Friday it has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $3 billion contract for the refueling and complex overhaul of the aircraft carrier John Stennis (CVN-74).
Congressional seapower leaders are calling on the Biden administration's first budget to prioritize the Navy and shipbuilding to counter the growing threat posed by China.
BAE Systems has delivered the first command-variant Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV-C) to the Marine Corps for testing, the company announced Thursday.
Navy officials are discussing how the service can use data to cut down on the amount of unobligated funds it sends back to the treasury each year, Tom Sasala, the Navy's chief data officer, said Wednesday.
The Marine Corps has awarded BAE Systems a $184 million contract modification for the procurement of 36 Amphibious Combat Vehicles, increasing the service's order to 72.