The Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 budget request seeks $127.3 billion for the Navy Department, including $16.8 billion for the Marine Corps, according to budget documents released today.
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The Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 budget request seeks $127.3 billion for the Navy Department, including $16.8 billion for the Marine Corps, according to budget documents released today.
The Defense Acquisition Board granted milestone B approval today for the Navy's new class of large-deck amphibious assault ships, clearing the way for the start of the next development phase, according to a Navy source.
U.S. Special Operations Command is delaying plans to buy additional Advanced SEAL Delivery System miniature submarines to focus on fixing reliability problems with the first sub, which has suffered developmental troubles for years.
The Defense Acquisition Board did not render a decision at its meeting this afternoon on the Navy's next-generation DD(X) destroyer, choosing instead to request more information and schedule another meeting in the next few weeks.
Two Senate appropriators want to include a provision in the fiscal year 2006 defense appropriations bill requesting a study on how a natural disaster in any given state could trigger a National Guard response from adjacent states.
When the I Marine Expeditionary Force returns to Iraq early next year, its top priority will be to train the Iraqi armed forces and embed Marines with Iraqi units to serve as mentors, according to Lt. Gen. John Sattler, I MEF commander.
As part of an overall look at how the Navy could help fight the war on terrorism, a service working group has recommended the Navy establish ground combat units with "SOF-lite" capabilities inferior to special operations forces SEALs but better than Navy master-at-arms security forces, according to a Navy official.
PARIS -- As the V-22 wraps up its operational evaluation, countries that have aircraft carriers or those that are focusing more on projecting military power are inquiring about the V-22's capabilities, according to Kenneth Moritz, business development director for the V-22 program.
PARIS -- Now that weight issues are largely under control, the next big challenge facing the Joint Strike Fighter program is the completion of software development, according to Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Davis, the JSF deputy program executive officer.
PARIS -- The V-22 program office and Bell Helicopter are confident in the company's ability to manufacture V-22s while concurrently juggling other helicopter programs, such as the VXX presidential transport and the H-1 series.
PARIS -- Boeing sees India's upcoming fighter aircraft competition as a possible springboard to increased business opportunities in the rapidly developing country, according to a company official.
PARIS -- The F-16 Block 60, the most advanced version of the aircraft, could be the last series Lockheed Martin produces as the production of the F-16's replacement, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, ramps up in the coming years, according to a Lockheed official.
PARIS -- The team building the Joint Strike Fighter has begun to consider what work companies from JSF partner countries could do when the aircraft goes into production, the agreements for which are being negotiated by government officials.
The Bush administration's $419.3 billion fiscal year 2006 defense budget request, which allots the Navy Department $125.6 billion, restructures Marine Corps ground forces to better fight terrorism, curtails shipbuilding programs and slashes the number of aircraft carriers from 12 to 11.
A top Pentagon official reiterated the Bush administration's position today that it does not support a draft and sees no merit in replacing volunteers with conscripts.
At the Defense Department's request, the Coast Guard will add two patrol boats, two law enforcement detachments and supporting forces to a security contingent already protecting an Iraqi oil terminal in the northern Arabian Gulf, the service announced today.
The Navy announced today that teams led by Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics each won contracts for the hotly contested Littoral Combat Ship -- a small, fast ship that represents the Navy's shifting combat focus from the high seas to waters close to shore.
The Navy may have to re-open negotiations for a major shipbuilding agreement it brokered between General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman in June 2002 if the service proceeds with plans to curtail the LPD-17 shipbuilding program.
Navy acquisition executive John Young officially announced today the service will acquire the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle through an open competition, not a sole-source approach.
The Bush administration's $401.7 billion contains $1.2 billion in Marine Corps procurement funding, plus $245 million for Marine ammunition and additional funding for Marine aviation.