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Justin Katz was Inside the Navy’s associate editor until November 2020. He was previously a local news reporter in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. A New York native, he graduated from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, with a bachelor’s degree in communication.
The congressional committees overseeing the Pentagon's budget are divided on funding for technology developed by the Strategic Capabilities Office and bound for the Marine Corps that would launch organic fires from an unmanned surface vessel.
The Navy announced yesterday it hired former enlisted Marine John Kroger as its first "chief learning officer" to oversee the service's educational programs, following one of the recommendations from a study completed last year by Navy Under Secretary Thomas Modly.
Austal USA's bid protest for a shipyard planning contract was denied because, according to a government watchdog, the Navy acted reasonably when it deemed using a wholly owned subsidiary less risky than using an independent subcontractor. (UPDATED)
The Navy plans to request pricing for an unlimited warranty on its next-generation frigate prior to exercising the first ship option, according to a revised government watchdog report published today.
The Navy yesterday announced it stood up five offices around the country as part of the service acquisition executive’s “Naval Expeditionary” endeavor.
The Government Accountability Office this week denied a bid protest by Austal USA of a shipyard planning contract worth up to $931 million that was awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries earlier this summer.
The Navy today announced a medium-sized, unmanned undersea vehicle program developed to hunt mines has cleared the milestone C acquisition hurdle, paving the way for a low-rate initial production contract to be made to prime contractor General Dynamics Mission Systems.
The Navy today announced it completed a technological refresh of its financial management systems, which encompassed consolidating nine ledgers down to one cloud-based system, known as Enterprise Resource Planning.
The Navy is conducting a market survey to find small businesses capable of integrating a towed array sensor system that is key to its anti-submarine surveillance vessels, the service announced this week.
The Navy is inviting the public in early September to participate in a "Hack the Machine" event in New York City with $90,000 in prizes available for those "who produce key insights or solutions," according to a service statement.
The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program is at risk of incurring up to $43 million in contract cancellation fees if Congress slashes $20 million in requested funding for missile tube production.
The concept design phase for a new unmanned surface vessel may be limited from seven contract awards to five if Congress maintains a proposed $20 million cut to the program in the fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill, according to an undated document newly obtained by Inside Defense.
A House-proposed cut to the Pentagon's fiscal year 2020 request for the Conventional Prompt Strike program -- the U.S. military's marquee hypersonic strike project -- would knock both the Army and Navy off schedule from current plans to deploy variants of the new ultra-fast, boost-glide weapon in 2023 and 2025 respectively.
The Navy told Congress this week that proposed cuts to the fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill could result in delays of one to two years for the fourth Gerald Ford-class aircraft carrier and the new MQ-25 unmanned aerial tanker.
A new RAND Corp. study suggests the Navy's methods for gauging the readiness of its strategic sealift fleet is inherently problematic and calls into question whether those ships could respond to a large-scale contingency. (UPDATED)
The Navy announced today that it has cleared the Advanced Arresting Gear to recover "all props and jets."
The Navy is seeking industry's help to identify the costs and requirements for constructing a floating dry dock that can accommodate aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, according to an Aug. 9 request for information.
A government watchdog agency says the Navy won't commit to adjusting its proposal to build the next-generation frigate via a less-risky contract mechanism, despite not providing analysis to support claims about the second- and third-order effects that change may have.
The Navy this fiscal quarter will begin a full-and-open competition to replace its legacy class of catamaran-hulled auxiliary ships focused on undersea surveillance, a vessel with renewed importance to the fleet as the Navy continually sounds the alarm over Russia's submarine force.
The Navy's chief engineer is preparing to solicit industry for a wide range of applications it can develop to monitor shipboard components, one effort that is part of a broader six-year, programmatic rollout to replace the service's legacy shipboard monitoring system.