The Zumwalt (DDG-1000) will be delayed in reaching initial operational capability, according to the Navy's top surface warfare officer.
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The Zumwalt (DDG-1000) will be delayed in reaching initial operational capability, according to the Navy's top surface warfare officer.
The Navy is considering establishing a consortium that would use other transaction authority to enhance the service's information warfare capabilities.
The Navy is soliciting ideas from the fleet on how to use additive manufacturing to create equipment, according to a Navy administrative message distributed last month.
Thomas Harker was sworn in today as assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, according to a tweet from Navy Secretary Richard Spencer.
The Navy underrepresented technology risks in its largest acquisition program, the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, during a readiness assessment completed two years ago, according to a Dec. 21 Government Accountability Office report.
The Senate yesterday confirmed by voice vote Thomas Harker to serve as assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller.
The Navy plans to increase man-portable and vehicle-based platform terminals beginning in 2018 and 2019 for its Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), according to documents viewed by Inside the Navy.
The Marine Corps is seeking information about a compact system that could fulfill the roles of the service's three target acquisition devices, according to a Dec. 15 Federal Business Opportunities notice.
Naval Air Systems Command is implementing aspects of a new approach to acquisition that at full maturity can cut the time necessary to develop a weapon system in half, according to service officials.
A new technology for unmanned aerial cargo vehicles, demonstrated this week, is pushing the Marine Corps to change its thinking about mission sets, according to a service official.
The MQ-8C Fire Scout is expected to reach initial operating capability and see its first deployment in 2020, according to Northrop Grumman officials.
The destroyer Fitzgerald (DDG-62) departed Yokosuka, Japan, over the weekend aboard a heavy-lift vessel bound for Pascagoula, MS, according to a Navy statement.
The Navy is mulling how many Vertical Launch System cells will outfit the guided-missile frigate replacement, according to a top surface warfare official.
Three Navy programs of record will reach initial operating capability three years early as a result of the service’s rapid capability office, according to a top service acquisition official.
Budget instability has forced the Navy to take unwanted risks that may have contributed to the destroyer collisions in U.S. 7th Fleet earlier this summer, according to a top service official.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has nominated Navy Rear Adm. Richard Brown to the rank of vice admiral and assigned him as the new commander of naval surface forces, according to a Nov. 30 Defense Department statement.
The Navy is on track to expand its use of mine countermeasures beyond the Littoral Combat Ship platform by moving those capabilities to the modular force, according to a top expeditionary warfare official.
The Navy is seeking information from industry about a shore- and carrier-based communication system that will integrate with the service's MQ-25 Stingray unmanned tanker program, according to a Federal Business Opportunities notice.
The Navy’s newly established Unmanned Undersea Squadron (UUVRON-1) is slated to have 95 personnel and 45 UUVs from the service's programs of record by 2024, according to the squadron's commanding officer.
The Navy is taking several steps to improve the capabilities of its live, virtual and constructive training ranges by 2020, according to the service's air boss.