A Pentagon board last week approved increasing the Army's requirement for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles and decreasing the number the Marine Corps and Air Force are slated to receive, Pentagon sources said.
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A Pentagon board last week approved increasing the Army's requirement for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles and decreasing the number the Marine Corps and Air Force are slated to receive, Pentagon sources said.
The Navy has crafted a $4.6 billion wish list of 20 items not funded in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2009 budget request, with "critical maritime patrol improvements" and a 10th LPD-17 amphibious ship topping the service's needs.
Armored truck builders fell short of producing the number of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles the Pentagon wanted in January because of a problem with a subcontractor, the Marine Corps general steering the joint-service effort said today.
The Navy today unveiled a fiscal year 2009 budget proposal that requests funding for seven new ships -- instead of the 11 previously planned -- because of cuts to the Littoral Combat Ship program, while also scaling back plans for the Navy's troubled VH-71 presidential helicopter.
The Coast Guard has put a dollar figure on the refund it is demanding from an industry team for its work on eight faulty patrol cutters: $96.1 million.
House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) continues to push to make the Navy's Sea Fighter a deployable vessel even though the service says it only plans to use the catamaran for at-sea experiments.
A proposal to chop the Marine Corps' planned Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle buy still requires the approval of a high-level Pentagon board before it can be implemented, Commandant Gen. James Conway said today.
With congressional Democrats and the White House at an impasse over war funding, Marine Corps and Navy officials are crafting proposals for how to free up funds to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Marine Corps is reducing the number of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles it is buying from 3,700 to 2,300, service officials confirmed Nov. 30.
In a bid to keep cash flowing to the Pentagon's No. 1 acquisition effort, congressional appropriators today shifted $11.6 billion into the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 base budget for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle program, a move intended to support contract awards for 6,500 additional vehicles next month.
The Navy is killing a deal for a second Littoral Combat Ship from General Dynamics after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on contract changes for the over-budget program, the service announced today.
The Senate last night passed an amendment to the fiscal year 2008 defense authorization bill that calls for boosting spending on Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to more than $28 billion.
The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee today approved its $459.3 billion fiscal year 2008 defense appropriations bill, including a proposal to rescind funding for the second of two Littoral Combat Ships that General Dynamics is developing.
Amid widespread concern about Army casualties in Baghdad, the Pentagon is diverting 1,200 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles ordered by the Marine Corps to the Army.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has assigned a DX rating to the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle program, giving it priority for critical resources such as tires and steel.