MARINE CORPS BASE TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter says aviation safety and readiness are among his top priorities, following a string of aircraft mishaps across the Marine Corps over the past year.
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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 BASE TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter says aviation safety and readiness are among his top priorities, following a string of aircraft mishaps across the Marine Corps over the past year.
The Defense Department Inspector General says the Knifefish unmanned underwater vehicle being developed by the Navy to hunt for sea mines is behind schedule and may not be ready for a planned initial production decision next year.
The Marine Corps has started a baseline review of its cyber personnel and capabilities, as the service looks to ensure it has the right-sized information technology workforce for the future, according to officials.
The Navy is planning to deal Raytheon a sole source award to demonstrate an extended range version of the Joint Standoff Weapon, according to a recent notification.
President-elect Donald Trump's goal of a 350-ship Navy will cost the U.S. taxpayer "several billion dollars" above the previously estimated $21 billion per year to have 308 ships in the inventory, according to a congressional source.
The Navy is planning to release a request for proposals for the development of a new undersea warfare system capabilities in December.
The Navy has agreed to continue contracting with Sikorsky Aircraft for presidential helicopter maintenance as part of a deal to rein in production costs on the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter program.
The Navy is seeking ideas from industry for a replacement to the Tomahawk cruise missile, as the service plans to hold an industry day on the Next-Generation Land Attack Weapon in early December.
Naval Sea Systems Command established an Arctic working group to determine how the Navy's surface fleet can begin operating more regularly in cold-weather regions.
The program executive office for Littoral Combat Ships has submitted paperwork for eventually transitioning the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's "Sea Hunter" unmanned surface vessel to the PEO, according to a program official.
The Office of Naval Research is looking to experiment with outfitting its drone swarms with payloads, according to the office's top official, after several successful demonstrations of the swarming technology over the last year.
The Navy will embark the mine countermeasures mission package on a Littoral Combat Ship for at-sea testing by next September, service officials confirmed.
The Defense Department's inspector general began an audit of Marine Corps aviation squadron readiness earlier this month.
The Navy is finalizing its first ever long-term research and development plan to guide capability investments over the next three decades, according to a top acquisition official.
The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit recently deployed to the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions achieved an average readiness rate of 70 percent with its V-22 Ospreys, a marked improvement over past units using the tiltrotor aircraft.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Navy will meet with industry in early December to discuss designs for a new coastal patrol boat, with the service planning to subsequently release a request for proposals for the new craft by the end of this calendar year, according to a program official.
The Missile Defense Agency is not pursuing any follow-on capabilities to the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA interceptor the Pentagon is currently co-developing with Japan, according to agency officials.
The Navy's new Cybersecurity Safety, or CYBERSAFE, instructions are nearly finalized, as the service has been operating under interim guidance since the framework was rolled out last fall, according to the service.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Marine Corps wants to continue experimenting with commercial-off-the-shelf technology to quickly assess its utility for the future force, according to the service's head of capability development.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Navy is still working with Congress to secure block buy authority for the Ship-to-Shore Connector program, with officials hoping the package deal could stretch across three years, rather than just the two initially proposed, according to a service official.