Marine Corps forces in Japan resumed MV-22 Osprey flight operations today following a crash in shallow waters off the coast of Okinawa last week.
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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.
Marine Corps forces in Japan resumed MV-22 Osprey flight operations today following a crash in shallow waters off the coast of Okinawa last week.
The Navy tested its Littoral Combat Ships against underwater explosions that were weaker than traditional testing standards, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester.
The Navy requires an even larger fleet than the one called for by President-elect Donald Trump, according to the service's latest force-structure assessment released Dec. 16.
The Navy has awarded Sikorsky Aircraft a $137.9 million deal to perform maintenance on the presidential helicopter fleet through 2022.
The Marine Corps is planning to partner its development of a large, sea-based unmanned aerial system with an Army-led effort to develop helicopter replacements for the joint force, according to a Marine official.
The commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force has addressed an MV-22 mishap that occurred off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, Tuesday. (UPDATED Dec. 14, 10:27 a.m.)
A top Navy official defended the service's contracting approach on the Littoral Combat Ship this week, after the Government Accountability Office and a lawmaker criticized the share of costs the Pentagon pays for defects and overruns.
The Navy will release a new strategy for its surface forces in January, two years after unveiling a concept for more widely distributing and up-arming its warships.
Despite President-elect Donald Trump's goal of building toward a 350-ship Navy, the service's immediate priorities under an increased budget would be catching up on ship and aircraft maintenance, as well as buying more strike fighters and munitions, according to a top officer.
Navy leaders have formally approved the creation of a new group organized to oversee the service's mine warfare initiatives, including development of the problem-plagued Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures mission package.
The Joint Staff has approved the capabilities development document for the Navy's future frigate, as critics of the ship advocate for slowing down its procurement.
The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt (DDG-1000) left Panama yesterday and continued its transit to San Diego, CA, after the Navy and contractors repaired the ship's propulsion system.
The Navy is planning to stretch out the next multiyear procurement contract for V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to seven years, according to a recent industry notice.
The Navy will soon begin biennial assessments of a new contracting strategy for ship maintenance in order to ensure the service is capturing lessons learned and making progress under the new model.
The Navy will release the results of a new assessment outlining the number and types of ships the service requires in early 2017, around the same time as President-elect Donald Trump's new administration takes power.
The first-in-class guided missile destroyer Zumwalt (DDG-1000) has been ordered to remain at ex-Naval Station Rodman in Panama after suffering "engineering issues" while transiting the Panama Canal, according to a Nov. 22 statement from U.S. Third Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Ryan Perry.
MARINE CORPS BASE TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA -- The Marine Corps' experimental battalion, training with novel concepts and off-the-shelf technology, wrapped up urban assault and combined-fire exercises here last week as it prepares to deploy to the Asia-Pacific region.
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Several House authorizers are asking their colleagues on the appropriations committee to allow the Ohio-class replacement submarine program to move forward under an extended continuing resolution.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FL -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter blasted Congress for refusing to pass a spending bill until next spring and said the Defense Department will consider requesting exceptions to new-start spending restrictions under an extended continuing resolution.