The Navy has awarded a $5.3 billion contract modification to Boeing for a multiyear deal for 124 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers, the sea service announced today.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
The Navy has awarded a $5.3 billion contract modification to Boeing for a multiyear deal for 124 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers, the sea service announced today.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has added nine F/A-18E/F Super Hornets to mitigate a projected strike fighter shortfall and inserted funding for a Mobile Landing Platform to bump shipbuilding procurement to 10 vessels, according to a draft report on the panel's mark of the fiscal year 2011 defense spending bill.
While China's economic progress has enhanced the country's international standing and its military's ability to shift focus from border protection to power projection and a blue-water navy, great uncertainties about the country's long-term aspirations remain, according to a Defense Department report released today.
Another delay for the Northrop Grumman-built X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) has pushed back first flight to December and sea trials to 2013, but the program manager told Inside the Navy today he believes the program is now on track.
The amphibious assault ship Green Bay (LPD-20) had problems with engine contaminants and had to undergo extensive modifications this spring, a Navy official told lawmakers today.
Northrop Grumman's plans to shutter its shipyard in Avondale, LA, in 2013 and move all Gulf Coast military shipbuilding to Mississippi would add $210 million to the price tag for completing the San Antonio-class amphibious assault ships LPD-23 and -25, the company's president told investors today.
Boeing has submitted three different platforms in its response to the VXX presidential helicopter request for information, and will wait until the request for proposals to whittle it down to one platform, a company official told reporters today.
Design problems, inadequate government oversight during new construction, lack of cleanliness and an absence of proper training were among a host of reasons for the engine problems on the San Antonio (LPD-17), the lead ship in the class, according to a report on the investigation and a Navy official.
The Navy and Air Force today unveiled a memorandum of agreement for increasing interoperability and shared efficiencies between the Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) drone and the Air Force's Global Hawk RQ-4 program.
The Navy estimates it will cost at least $70 million to modify each large-deck amphibious ship to accommodate the Marine Corps' F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, including infrastructure modifications and efforts to mitigate engine heat from the short-take-off, vertical-landing JSF variant, according to a senior Marine.
The Navy's first carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, CF-1, made its long-awaited first flight June 6, and manufacturer Lockheed Martin told reporters in a conference call today it expects a test aircraft to make its first trip to a carrier deck for testing next year.
The Pentagon's price tag for the Joint Strike Fighter is now estimated at $382 billion, a $54 billion increase since April that will push the unit cost for each aircraft -- excluding development costs -- to $133.1 million, according to Pentagon officials.
The Navy yesterday released its long-awaited Naval Operations Concept, a document crafted to expand upon the vision outlined in the 2007 tri-service maritime strategy.
The Navy's acting director of air warfare told reporters at the Pentagon today that the service remains committed to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter carrier variant, insisting that the decision to enter into a multiyear deal for 124 Super Hornets and Growlers through fiscal year 2013 does not change that.
The Defense Department notified Congress today that it intends to enter into a multiyear procurement deal with Boeing for 124 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft in fiscal years 2010 through 2013, with the deal to be signed "no later" than Sept. 30.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today unveiled a list of five governing acquisition principles at the Navy League's annual conference here as the sea service seeks to rein in exploding costs and delays that have plagued numerous programs.
The first test launch of an aircraft using the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System has been delayed until the fall, due to a catapult failure earlier this year, the program manager said yesterday.
The Marine Corps plans to deploy its first squadron of F-35B Joint Strike Fighter short-take-off, vertical-landing aircraft in 2014, and the service will have the first of the latest Block 3 versions of the aircraft by then, Lt. Gen. George Trautman, deputy commandant for aviation, told the Senate Armed Services airland subcommittee today.
The Navy strike fighter shortfall would peak at about 177 aircraft later this decade after factoring in F/A-18E/F Super Hornet buys and other mitigation efforts, a number that could drop depending on pending decisions about how much the service lives of legacy Hornets could be extended, the Navy's top weapons buyer said today.
The Joint Strike Fighter program achieved a long-awaited milestone today with the full vertical landing of BF-1, the Marine Corps' short-take-off, vertical-landing variant of the F-35.