Australia will buy 24 MH-60R helicopters through a foreign military sale with the U.S. Navy, the first-ever purchase of the variant outside the United States, Capt. Dean Peters, the H-60 program manager, announced today.
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Australia will buy 24 MH-60R helicopters through a foreign military sale with the U.S. Navy, the first-ever purchase of the variant outside the United States, Capt. Dean Peters, the H-60 program manager, announced today.
The Navy will cut 3,000 sailors from the force over the summer because the service is doing too good a job of retaining personnel and doesn't have space for them all, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said today.
The House Appropriations Committee has raised concerns about Navy shipbuilding in its version of the fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill, pointing out numerous problems stretched across many ship classes potentially caused by a lack of proper oversight, according to a document reviewed by InsideDefense.com.
The House Appropriations Committee has axed all 12 Fire Scouts the Navy had asked for in its version of the fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill, rebuffing the Navy's stated intention to nearly double its planned buy from 31 to 57 aircraft to meet additional demands, according to a document reviewed by InsideDefense.com.
The Marine Corps' version of the Joint Strike Fighter won't achieve initial operational capability until 2014 or 2015, and the schedule for the Navy's F-35C carrier variant is also certain to slip, senior service officials testified on Capitol Hill today.
The Navy will revisit its Joint Strike Fighter F-35B/C production capacity of 50 aircraft per year as the service deals with a looming strike fighter gap later this decade, according to the Defense Department's updated 30-year aircraft procurement plan for the Air Force and the Navy, obtained by Inside the Navy.
The Navy has terminated its maintenance contract with Earl Industries for work on the LPD-17 San Antonio class of amphibious assault ships, citing improper work on the troubled ship and concerns about the company's quality assurance program, Naval Sea Systems Command announced today.
ST. LOUIS, MO -- Several of the nine F-35 Joint Strike Fighter partner nations have reached out to Boeing for information on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Boeing Military Aircraft President Chris Chadwick told reporters here today.
The fiscal year 2011 spending agreement worked out between the White House and Congress to avert a government shutdown will allow the Navy to build two DDG-51 Aegis destroyers, according to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.
The generator that failed during a recent flight test of an F-35 "stopped working completely" during flight, Vice Adm. David Venlet, Joint Strike Fighter program executive officer, told reporters following a hearing on Capitol Hill today.
The Marine Corps has signed an agreement with the Navy to buy aircraft-carrier variants of the Joint Strike Fighter, a decision that effectively updates a 2003 commitment by the two services to integrate their tactical air forces and dashes the vision held by some senior Marines of a pure fleet of short-takeoff-and-landing variants of the F-35, service officials announced today.
A continuing resolution that lasts through the summer could negate the Navy's work to reduce costs on Virginia-class submarines, bring about cost growth that could lead to "additional scrutiny" from Congress and put the entire program's future into question, according to John Casey, president of General Dynamics Electric Boat, one of the two builders of attack subs.
The Marine Corps will buy carrier variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a reversal of the position the service has held for years that it wanted to operate an all jump-jet F-35 fleet off of both amphibious ships and aircraft carriers, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos told the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
The unit cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will rise by as much as $5 million in the coming years due to the Pentagon's decision to delay the purchase of some aircraft as well as the likelihood that foreign military sales partners will follow suit, according to Air Force Maj. Gen. C.D. Moore, JSF deputy program executive officer.
The carrier variant of the Joint Strike Fighter will be the first Navy version of the F-35 to achieve initial operational capability, a service official said today.
The Navy will lose about $1.3 billion in Joint Strike Fighter funding over the future years defense plan due to the Defense Department's decision to defer buying 124 aircraft, according to a Navy spokeswoman, despite the Pentagon's assertion earlier this year that the money would go back to the services.
In his first public comments since taking over as program executive officer of the Joint Strike Fighter program last year, Vice. Adm. David Venlet said today that the program is adding more than 1,800 test flights to the schedule and pulling in production aircraft to help bear the testing load in a bid to get the troubled program back on track.
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 wants to run its aircraft and ships on 100 percent biofuel but cannot because the fuel is not a proper detergent for the engines, a problem the service wants industry's help in solving, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said during a Jan. 25 clean energy conference in Washington.
The Navy and the international community should consider how to counter piracy in the same way they approach countering terrorism, Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and 5th Fleet, told reporters today.