The Navy's fiscal year 2020 budget confirms the lead ship procurement cost for the service's next-generation frigate will be $1.3 billion, a figure that is slightly higher than previous projections stated by Navy officials.
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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 Navy's fiscal year 2020 budget confirms the lead ship procurement cost for the service's next-generation frigate will be $1.3 billion, a figure that is slightly higher than previous projections stated by Navy officials.
The Navy's new fiscal year 2020 budget request incorporates $454 million for improvements to the service's public shipyards, and $2.7 billion programmed throughout the future years defense program for those purposes, according to a top Navy budget official.
The Navy plans to retire one of its Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, according to the service's new $205.6 billion fiscal year 2020 budget request.
The Navy plans to request a $205.6 billion topline, including what is projected to be the largest requested shipbuilding budget in 20 years, according to fiscal year 2020 budget briefing slides obtained by Inside Defense.
Phyllis Bayer, assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, has resigned her position, the Navy announced today.
The chief officer responsible for transporting military supplies and personnel around the world said sealift is his command's top readiness issue.
While standing up Program Executive Office Columbia, the Navy is also shifting roughly a dozen uniformed and civilian personnel among acquisition leadership posts overseeing the surface and subsurface fleets.
The Navy this month will stand up Program Executive Office Columbia as a way to ensure the service's stated No. 1 acquisition priority has a senior officer dedicated to monitoring its progress.
Citing the years-long delays plaguing the attack submarine Boise (SSN-764), the Navy has opted to divert scheduled maintenance for two other subs from public shipyards to the private sector, according to documents viewed by Inside the Navy.
The Navy late last week published a draft request for proposals to build 10 of 20 next-generation guided-missile frigates, dubbed FFG(X).
The head of U.S. Strategic Command, an Air Force general with responsibility for the entire nuclear triad, publicly raised concern this week about the ability of the Columbia-class submarine program to absorb further delays in the wake of faulty welding discovered last year, departing from Navy leadership assurances about the schedule for the $126 billion project.
The Navy plans to hold an industry day following the publication of a draft solicitation for its next-generation frigate to review the vessel's requirements and how the service plans to evaluate proposals, according to a Feb. 22 Federal Business Opportunities notice.
Lawmakers are denouncing plans by the Trump administration to submit an inflated Overseas Contingency Operations budget as a "gimmick."
The Navy completed developmental testing for a mine-hunting sonar system that will be incorporated into a new mine countermeasures unmanned surface vehicle, according to a Navy statement.
The Navy will need time to field its largest unmanned undersea vehicles before the service can make a determination about whether unmanned vessels should be counted toward its 355-ship fleet goal, according to a top submariner.
The Navy's acquisition executive has delegated authority to the service's research chiefs to award contracts up to $1 million for technology and prototype development, and to purchase a variety of materials for "experimental or test purposes," according to two memos obtained by Inside Defense.
The Navy is proposing a series of industry days to discuss the nascent stages of standardizing autonomous vehicle interfaces, with the intent to mandate those standards in future contracts, according to a Feb. 15 request for information.
SAN DIEGO -- Adm. Christopher Grady, U.S. Fleet Forces commander, is preparing to sign out a "readiness campaign plan" in the coming weeks that will establish a fleet analytics office, and potentially install an officer billet on his staff focused on readiness.
SAN DIEGO -- The F-35 joint program office will brief Congress on its Block 4 modernization plan in the coming months, according to the program executive officer.
SAN DIEGO -- The Navy delivered only 30 percent of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers out of maintenance on time in recent years, and the admiral overseeing that maintenance believes the service's acquisition strategy is to blame.