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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.
Textron Systems in partnership with the Navy is researching how its unmanned surface vessel could use autonomous technology in conjunction with "smart weapons" to ultimately fulfill a fire and indirect fire mission for the service, a company executive told Inside the Navy in a Jan. 24 interview.
Two unmanned mine warfare systems completed shipboard integration testing last week aboard a Littoral Combat Ship, the Navy announced today.
The Navy spent $1.4 billion on backup helicopters "it did not need" until fiscal year 2020, and will spend $2 million annually to store those aircraft as a result of requirements offices not informing one another of schedule changes, according to a new government watchdog report.
The Navy is rejecting a suggestion by Senate authorizers to re-purpose old Standard Missile-3 guided missiles for live-fire exercises because it would be several times more expensive and have a "limited return on investment," according to a service report sent to Congress last month and viewed by Inside the Navy.
The Navy is looking to accelerate a mine neutralization system linked to a new mine countermeasures vessel, and will consider using an accelerated acquisition designation to do so, according to the program manager.
The necessary capabilities and mission sets for a future Navy auxiliary ship only recently disclosed to the public are being developed by three separate but overlapping requirements evaluation teams, according to a Navy program manager responsible for auxiliary fleet programs.
The Navy plans to award contracts for industry studies of a new common hull in March, the program manager said yesterday at the Surface Navy Association symposium.
The Navy is now estimating the costs of follow-on next-generation frigates will be near $800 million, edging away from the $950 million threshold it announced last year, the program manager told attendees today at the Surface Navy Association symposium.
Mysterious damage found in a Zumwalt-class destroyer's engine was caused by a "foreign contaminant," and the source of that object has not yet been discovered, according to the program manager for the ship class.
A House lawmaker likely to lead oversight of Navy shipbuilding singled out the service's next-generation frigate program as one of his big concerns going into the new year.
The Navy will not procure two units of an experimental high-energy laser in fiscal year 2019 as planned, and will instead adhere to a congressional procurement fence that allows the service to buy only one unit, according to a spokesman for the Navy secretary.
The Navy has programmed all of the necessary funding into its future years defense program to move forward on its 111 surface warfare reforms, and has implemented 87 of those changes to date, according to the service's second most senior officer.
The Navy is developing specifications for how autonomous technology should behave within its unmanned systems, with the intention to eventually include them in solicitations, according to a Navy official.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing next week, the Navy said today.
The Navy is seeking information from contractors interested in producing the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block III, according to a Jan. 7 notice posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website.
Expeditionary warfare officials aim to identify funding in a future budget to start proving out concepts necessary to design a new maintenance and modernization model for big-deck amphibious ships, according to a Navy official.
The Navy's formal solicitation for trade studies concerning a new common hull form for auxiliary ships stresses the need for “the most extreme cost conscious acquisition approach” and prioritizes sealift as the most important mission set of the five requiring recapitalization.
Huntington Ingalls Industries yesterday announced it hired retired Vice Adm. Joseph Tofalo as its corporate vice president of program integration and assessment.
The Defense Department has assigned the Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Transportation Command as responsible for the F-35 global transportation and distribution networks, along with North American regional warehousing, according to an F-35 Joint Program Office statement issued today.
The Navy plans to release the final request for proposals for its next training helicopter, TH-XX, later this month, according to documents the service published yesterday.