A high-level advisory panel is recommending the Navy use pilot projects to streamline the acquisition of cyber warfare products as a first step in instilling a stronger culture of innovation across the service.
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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.
A high-level advisory panel is recommending the Navy use pilot projects to streamline the acquisition of cyber warfare products as a first step in instilling a stronger culture of innovation across the service.
A new Congressional Research Service report suggests the Navy could be poised to make a revolutionary leap in the way it approaches missile defense thanks to three game-changing technologies under development.
The dispute between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus over the number of Littoral Combat Ships needed by the maritime service continued last week, with a top senator siding with Carter's decision to cut the LCS program.
The Navy has begun studying how Air Force aircraft could be used as part of the maritime service's integrated anti-air network, according to an official.
The Navy does not yet have a handle on how many autonomous underwater vehicles it needs over the next decade, but a forthcoming study on unmanned systems could help delineate the requirement, according to a recent report to lawmakers.
The amount of fuel used by the relatively new class of Littoral Combat Ships could change the Navy's requirement for 17 fleet replacement oilers, according to a report to Congress.
The Navy is facing a weapons shortfall, initially sparked by a decision to maintain high-end capability project funding levels in the face of a declining defense budget and further exacerbated by the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according to a service official and budget documents.
The Navy and Marine Corps will continue to hold exercises involving integration of the two services, building on the success of events like Bold Alligator, according to service chief Gen. Robert Neller.
The Littoral Combat Ship Milwaukee's propulsion system is set to be permanently repaired after it completes full-ship shock trials later this year, as the Navy continues to investigate the ship's loss of propulsion in early December.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson in a new report to Congress says he wants to move more programs away from the Office of the Secretary of Defense's authority and under his service's purview, while at the same time stating he has sufficient powers to "own" Navy acquisition.
A review team found the Navy overly relied on the results of shore-based testing of the Remote Multimission Vehicle, a key factor in sending the anti-mine system to shipboard trials prematurely, according to a service spokeswoman.
Inside Defense has obtained the Navy's fiscal year 2017 unfunded priorities list sent to Congress, which we understand has not yet been officially transmitted to lawmakers by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
The Navy will deploy this fall the modified version of the supersonic Standard Missile-6 that is capable of targeting enemy ships, the service has confirmed.
Naval Sea Systems Command is establishing an incident-response headquarters to more quickly react to the operational fleet when officers encounter a cybersecurity incident, according to a top command official.
The maintenance and upgrade of two Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates recently approved for sale to Taiwan could help stem the loss of private shipyard work on the East Coast, according to Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley.
The admiral in charge of surface warfare developments says directed-energy lasers and electromagnetic railguns are "still a few years out" from being able to compete with the suite of weapons currently installed on Navy ships.
The Marine Corps held its first-ever "Innovation Symposium" last week, with leaders from within the service, as well as outside experts, convening to discuss how to better cultivate a culture of creative thinking.
The Navy will use a modeling and simulation program to test against supersonic, anti-ship cruise missiles after a program to develop a real target was canceled last year.
The Littoral Combat Ship program is under review yet again, with its unique constructs for swappable mission modules, dual crewing and contracted maintenance now all under examination.
The Navy's advanced anti-ship missile and its recently restructured carrier-launched unmanned aerial system are the first two programs to fall under the service’s new Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office, according to a top acquisition official.