Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Navy has temporarily maneuvered around a threat hanging over its plans to double production of the Virginia-class submarine program in fiscal year 2011 -- a top Pentagon modernization goal that cannot be executed under limits on increasing procurement rates stipulated in the stopgap spending measure funding Defense Department operations, according to service officials.
The Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator failed to get its wheels off the ground at Edwards Air Force Base Thursday.
The Defense Acquisition Board has endorsed a plan for the SSBN(X) class of Ohio-replacement ballistic missile submarines that involves 12 hulls at $4.9 billion a piece, each with 16 87-inch missile tubes designed to carry the D5 missile, the Navy announced today.
The Navy's much-delayed, Northrop Grumman-built X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) will undergo its first flight test this afternoon, a service official announced this morning.
When the Cargo Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is deployed to Afghanistan, it may be hobbled by interference on the radio frequency spectrum, according to a Marine Corps official.
A long-delayed request for proposals for the Ship-to-Shore Connector, successor top the air-cushioned landing craft, is imminent, according to a notice on Federal Business Opportunities.
The New Amphibious Vehicle expected to replace the aborted Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program may have to travel as few as 12 nautical miles from ship to shore, Navy and Marine Corps officials told the House Armed Services Committee in a hearing today.
Tension may be brewing between the Navy and Marine Corps over the Navy's decision not to fund the extended-range 5-inch munition or another alternative to make up for reductions in naval surface fire support.
The Navy will fill a gap left by the cancellation of the Non-Line Of Sight missile system with the Griffin missile, manufactured by Raytheon, the head of the surface warfare division announced today.
Saudi Arabia has formalized its interest in buying eight Littoral Combat Ship-like medium surface combat ships (SCSs) and 30 Fast Patrol Vessels, according to officials with Lockheed Martin.
The Navy is planning to resume testing the Joint High-Power Solid State Laser program in March, according to Office of Naval Research officials.
The chances that the Navy will rip out and replace any part of the Littoral Combat Ship's combat systems to increase commonality between the two variants are slim to nonexistent, according to the program executive officer for ships.
A fatal accident on the San Antonio (LPD-17) in 2009 and a subsequent court martial trial is prompting Naval Sea Systems Command to take a second look at its small-boat-launching procedures for the ship class, as well as life jacket design, according to the Navy's program executive office for ships.
The Navy is about to revive the long-dormant position of deputy assistant secretary for research and development as a result of a recent Naval Research Advisory Committee study, according to the head of the Office of Naval Research.
The Navy is planning to fill the gap left by the cancellation of the EPX spy plane program with a family of systems that may include surface ships but is not likely to feature the P-8, according to the head of the service's intelligence directorate.
The end for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program may be nigh, but program officials don't think its long-anticipated demise has anything to do with the vehicle's recent performance in testing.
Operating under a continuing resolution may stall the Navy's efforts to increase the size of its fleet, according to the assistant secretary of the Navy for acquisition, research and development.
The Littoral Combat Ship contract award drama came to an end yesterday when the Navy awarded Lockheed Martin-Marinette Marine and Austal USA contracts to construct 10 more ships each between now and fiscal year 2015.
If the Navy were only allowed to decommission two ships for every three it added to the fleet, additional costs to the service would reach over $2.5 billion, according to a Defense Department appeal regarding the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill.
The final version of the defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2011 backs a Senate provision barring the Navy from retiring its EP-3 aircraft until they can be adequately replaced.