President Trump today announced he plans to nominate Philip Bilden as Navy secretary.
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Justin Doubleday was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until June 2021, where he focused on defense-wide topics including budgets, acquisition policy, combatant commands, missile defense and cyber. He has also worked for ITP sister publications Inside the Army and Inside the Navy. Justin previously reported for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2013.
President Trump today announced he plans to nominate Philip Bilden as Navy secretary.
The accelerated Long Range Anti-Ship Missile program has cleared its production readiness review, according to a Lockheed Martin official.
The Navy is refusing to accept a new Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship from contractor Lockheed Martin until a software glitch with the ship's high-speed propulsion gears is fixed, according to an official.
The Navy is preparing to put its inventory of Tomahawk missiles through a refurbishment process known as re-certification starting in fiscal year 2019, with some of the land-attack missiles expected to receive a newly developed ability to strike targets at sea during the factory restoration.
The Navy is hosting an industry day next week in northern Virginia to discuss the service's plan for the follow-on Next Generation Enterprise Network competition.
The Navy will release a draft request for proposals outlining requirements for the future frigate within the next two months, according to the program manager, as the two competing contractors refine their designs of a modified Littoral Combat Ship.
The incoming chairman of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee will be pushing for at least a $5 billion increase in the Navy’s annual shipbuilding budget.
The Navy will meet with companies this spring to discuss its requirement for an improved rocket motor for the service's only missile tailored to destroying an enemy's air defenses.
The Defense Department has approved the Standard Missile-6 for international sales, as contractor Raytheon eyes Australia, Japan and South Korea as potential customers, the company said Jan. 10.
The Navy will soon begin training aircrews and maintenance personnel on the V-22 Osprey as part of a new detachment at Marine Corps Air Station New River, NC, according to the service.
Navy officials met with companies last month to discuss the service's upcoming competition for a new over-the-horizon weapon planned for installation on Littoral Combat Ships and frigates.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has approved new expedited acquisition processes, including the establishment of a Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office and a rapid prototyping program.
The Navy has released a new surface-forces strategy focused on a "return to sea control" through applying the service's nascent "distributed lethality" concept.
A notional fleet of 350 ships, pushed by both President-elect Donald Trump and Navy leadership, could cost $25 billion per year or 60 percent above the sea service's typical shipbuilding budget, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The Defense Department's inspector general has several high-profile Navy programs in its cross hairs, including the Littoral Combat Ship and Ohio-class submarine sustainment, according to the watchdog organization's fiscal year 2017 oversight plan.
A Navy surface warfare center in Virginia is inviting industry, academia and other government labs to its first technology exercise next year in the hope of finding technological innovations for surface warfare.
The Office of Naval Research and Northrop Grumman are developing a sea-based laser weapon that increases fivefold the power of the directed-energy system currently deployed in the Arabian Gulf.
The Office of Naval Research is examining expanded missions for its swarming-boat technology after demonstrating the ability to perform autonomous harbor defense this past fall.
The Navy released the final version of an instruction guiding how the service will implement and manage its new "cybersecurity safety" program.
The Chinese military returned a small unmanned underwater vehicle it had seized from a U.S. Navy ship, the Pentagon announced.