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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.
Despite a less aggressive public campaign from the Navy this budget cycle to highlight unmanned ships, House lawmakers are continuing to push for legislative provisions to temper the service's rapid efforts to develop the untested technology.
The Navy today awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat an $869 million contract modification for the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program.
A House panel is seeking more information from the Pentagon about the Navy's F/A-18 fleet in response to the service's proposal to sundown the production line in fiscal year 2022, but has stopped short of forcing the Defense Department to continue the program.
The Navy's team assessing physiological episodes in aviators has concluded its investigations into two aircraft fleets, but the admiral in charge says the team’s work will have implications for other military planes as well.
The Government Accountability Office this week denied the second bid protest filed against a $7.7 billion contract awarded to Leidos in February.
The Navy today announced that the second unit of its next-generation hovercraft completed acceptance trials earlier this month, but a recently published government watchdog report shines new light on issues the program faces behind the scenes.
The Government Accountability Office this week denied General Dynamics Information Technology's bid protest of a major Navy contract award to Leidos to manage the service's intranet.
The new deputy chief of naval operations, leading an office only established in October, is now overseeing the Navy's effort to sync its operational, budgetary and educational strategies for a return to great power competition.
Senate lawmakers are authorizing one fast attack Virginia-class submarine in this year's defense policy bill and approving twice the normal amount of advance procurement funding.
The Navy plans to award a contract for multiple industry studies to investigate options to make its next-generation cable ship, T-ARC(X), more affordable, according to a public notice.
The Navy is tapping Rear Adm. William Houston to become the director of undersea warfare (N97).
Officials for the Navy's MQ-25 unmanned aerial tanker program told government auditors they are at risk of having to extend developmental testing by up to three years, echoing previous warnings the service has made since recent funding cuts.
None of the losing vendors that took part in the Navy's future frigate competition filed a bid protest against the contract award to Fincantieri Marinette Marine, clearing the way for the service to begin work.
A new government watchdog report says the Navy is still coping with the effects of faulty welding found in the Columbia-class submarine's missile tube compartments nearly two years after a vendor identified the problem."
Kenneth Braithwaite, a retired Navy rear admiral and recent U.S. diplomat, was sworn in today as the 77th Navy secretary, according to a Pentagon statement.
The Navy’s Philadelphia-based surface warfare center is planning to issue a solicitation in August to partner with a consortium capable of providing a range of different technologies for "maritime sustainment."
A U.S. Pacific Fleet amphibious ship successfully "disabled" an aerial drone using a solid state laser prototype earlier this month, according to a Navy statement.
Perspecta has signed a deal with HPI Federal, a subsidiary of HP, worth more than $120 million to assist in "services and integration of the hardware" for the Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network program, the company’s chief executive said during a call with analysts this week.
The Navy yesterday distributed a request for proposals to industry for the Medium Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a new UUV program aimed at both intelligence gathering and mine countermeasures.
The Navy announced yesterday it plans to negotiate a contract with Raytheon to integrate the Common Control System with the MQ-8 Fire Scout.