The Navy has plenty of Tomahawk missiles to burn in Libya, according to the service's top officer, who said today that replacing the rounds that have been used up establishing a no-flight zone would not be a problem.
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The Navy has plenty of Tomahawk missiles to burn in Libya, according to the service's top officer, who said today that replacing the rounds that have been used up establishing a no-flight zone would not be a problem.
The Navy could consider cutting one major ship from its budget this year if Congress does not pass a defense spending bill, according to the service's top budget official. However, the chief of naval operations said today that he has not yet received proposals to deal with the shortfall.
Operations in Libya and Japan are unlikely to incur extra costs for the Navy, according to the service's top budget officer.
The Navy has awarded funds for its planned fiscal year 2011 purchase of Littoral Combat Ships, according to an announcement released today.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) encouraged Army and Marine Corps officials to get creative about taking supplies off the backs of warfighters at a congressional hearing this morning, and offered a suggestion of his own.
While the Navy is waiting until the smoke clears from the fiscal year 2011 budget debate before asking lawmakers to add funds to the FY-12 request, the service is continuing to construct an FY-13 budget as uncertainties pile up, service officials said today.
The Marine Corps' new structure recommended by its Force Structure Review will create some operational risk in simultaneous major combat operations and campaigns, but the service says it intends to mitigate that risk by operationalizing reserve forces.
The Navy has endorsed Northrop Grumman's decision to spin off two of its shipyards into a new entity called Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.
The Navy is confident that the ships it has under contract with Northrop Grumman will be built whether the company's proposed spinoff of its shipyards proceeds or not, a service official said today.
The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System re-entered full System Functional Demonstration testing today, almost three months after the program's first live aircraft launches uncovered a glitch, according to a Naval Air Systems Command spokesman.
Fiscal year 2011 contracts for the Littoral Combat Ship line are on hold due to uncertainty over the continuing resolution that controls Pentagon spending, according to the Navy's acquisition czar.
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program office is continuing testing on aspects of the canceled vehicle -- such as human habitability -- that would likely feed into the follow-on Amphibious Combat Vehicle, according to an office spokesman.
Work on the San Antonio LPD-17 will be completed in April and the ship will re-enter the fleet after three weeks of sea trials, according to the head of U. S. Fleet Forces Command.
The Navy likely will have to revise its fiscal year 2012 budget request if Congress continues to fund the Defense Department through the use of continuing resolutions, but the service's top officer said today he has no idea how to do that.
Despite expectations that the request for proposals for the Ship-to-Shore Connector would be posted by the end of February, there was still no solicitation posted by the end of business on the last day of the month.
The Marine Corps' recently completed Force Structure Review calls for trimming the list of equipment Marine units take when they deploy abroad, compared to what the service uses in Afghanistan.
The future of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is up in the air, following the release of a fiscal year 2012 defense budget request that cuts procurement funding for JLTV, top Marine Corps officials said today.
The replacement for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle will likely be fielded in four to seven years, Marine Corps officials said today, despite reports and documents that peg the initial operational capability at 2024.
The Navy heavily boosted Fire Scout buys, added seven P-8As to the future years defense plan and made the expected additions and subtractions to its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet procurement and Joint Strike Fighter buys, according to the president's fiscal year 2012 budget proposal rolled out today.
The Navy successfully launched the Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator, Northrop Grumman's X-47B, from Edwards Air Force Base, CA, on Feb. 4, and the program's next move will be to launch F-18s with X-47B software from a carrier as surrogates later this spring, program officials said today.