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Textron Marine Systems began on-water testing for the ship-to-shore connector earlier this month and is preparing for builder's trials at the end of this month, according to a company official.
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee is authorizing the defense secretary to pursue 20 ships for the surge sealift fleet and Ready Reserve Force, according to the subcommittee's mark of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill.
The Marine Corps recently received two large-scale, metal 3D printers at its production facilities on the East and West coasts, according to a senior official.
An influential House lawmaker will insert language in the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill calling for a more aggressive time line for the Navy's surge sealift recapitalization plan.
The Navy has 24 Littoral Combat Ship deployments scheduled between 2019 and 2024, according to the service's top admiral.
The Navy intends to ask Congress for funds to create force-level analytic tools developed jointly with industry in the fiscal year 2020 budget, according to the service's top civilian official.
The Navy's shipyard optimization plan will see the service spend $21 billion over the course of 20 years to recapitalize the four major public shipyards, according to a senior Navy official.
Industry has begun staking out places in the Navy's helicopter trainer replacement program with two companies publicly announcing their offerings last week at the Sea-Air-Space symposium in National Harbor, MD.
The Navy has completed the detail design work for Flight III of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, according to the program manager.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command recently implemented a development operations (DEVOP) environment on its research and development network in an effort to rapidly respond to cyber threats, according to an official.
In the week following the Navy's announcement that it will extend the life of its Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51), the service told Congress today that it will examine possible extensions to other ship classes as well to achieve its goal of a 355-ship fleet.
Vice Chief of Naval Operations Bill Moran is working to expedite resources targeted in the future years defense program that are designated to help the Navy achieve objectives laid out by a comprehensive review of last year's warship collisions, according to a four-star admiral.
The Navy anticipates it will deliver to Congress a report about potential savings for a block buy of CVN-80 and CVN-81 in four to six weeks, according to the Navy's top acquisition official.
The Navy has a three-pronged investment plan to improve its nuclear-capable shipyards that will upgrade dry docks to accommodate future attack submarines and aircraft carriers, and optimize shipyard layouts to improve productivity, according to a senior Navy official.
House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Rob Wittman (R-VA) said today approval for an anticipated aircraft carrier block buy will be in his subcommittee's mark-up of the fiscal year 2019 authorization bill.
Naval Air Systems Command's Fleet Readiness Centers are "reinvigorating" an apprentice program into a four-year endeavor that provides both an education and training for specialized trades in an effort to cultivate their own workforce, according to a Navy official.
Naval Air Systems Command estimates it will have nearly 1,000 additively manufactured parts approved for printing and use across the fleet by the end of 2018, almost a tenfold increase from what is available today, according to a NAVAIR logistics officer.
The Marine Corps is in contract negotiations to buy the last 17 VH-92A presidential helicopters from Sikorsky in the mid-2019 time frame contingent on that aircraft reaching milestone C, according to the program manager.
The Marine Corps and Sikorsky are confident they can meet the 2019 initial operational capability goal for the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter program, and estimate that 50 percent or more of previously reported issues have been fixed and retested, according to the program manager.
In a new report to Congress, the Navy Secretary rejected the notion that legacy Marine Corps and Army parachute systems will satisfy the service's requirements, and defended the Navy's testing strategy of its new system, according to documents viewed by Inside the Navy.