Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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 2021 budget proposal would trim the procurement cost of a new training helicopter to $912 million down from $1.1 billion, a revised price tag that reflects the service's January contract award to Leonardo Helicopters.
The Navy's new budget proposal abruptly slashed the future production of at least 36 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, a move it says will save up to $4.5 billion in future years.
A change in the procurement profile for the Navy's next-generation frigate has slightly increased the overall price per vessel, according to the service's fiscal year 2021 budget justification documents.
The Navy intends to work with Northrop Grumman to determine what weapons it could put on the MQ-8C Fire Scout, an unmanned helicopter deployed from Littoral Combat Ships and designed to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as mine countermeasures.
After years of discussions with lawmakers and repeated stumping by Navy leadership about its No. 1 acquisition priority, the service this week unveiled its budget request seeking to buy the first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.
The Navy's latest budget request establishes the formal start of research and development for SSN(X), a next-generation attack submarine that is faster, stealthier and capable of carrying more torpedoes than its predecessor, the Virginia class.
Having awarded both contracts that deliver its intranet, the Navy has begun planning efforts to transition both the hardware and IT services associated with the Next Generation Enterprise Network, according to service officials.
The Navy's fiscal year 2021 budget request lays out a detailed acquisition plan for the service's Large Unmanned Surface Vessel, beginning with an anticipated delay for an early solicitation this year and culminating with the first vehicle being delivered in FY-26.
The Navy this week awarded dozens of companies contracts collectively worth up to $982 million to build various payloads and subsystems for its portfolio of unmanned surface vehicles.
Pentagon acquisition executive Ellen Lord sent to lawmakers in October a memorandum certifying the Navy's Block V Virginia-class submarine contract.
Days before the Pentagon is expected to unveil its fiscal year 2021 budget request, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced a standalone bill designed to expedite the Navy's path to a 355-ship fleet.
The Navy yesterday awarded Leidos a contract worth $7.7 billion for the services portion of the Next Generation Enterprise Network, concluding a two-part re-competition that provides the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
The Pentagon's chief weapons testers say both they and the Navy have assessed a new unmanned aircraft as "not operationally effective, not operationally suitable, and not cyber survivable," and have revealed the service created a "tiger team" to fix those issues. (UPDATED)
Pentagon weapons evaluators in their latest annual report criticized the Navy's testing of an unmanned undersea vehicle designed for mine countermeasures, saying the environment was too comparable to the conditions the vessels' original creators used when developing classification algorithms.
With eyes toward Russia and a directive from the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the Navy has fielded a low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, according to a senior Defense Department official.
The Navy last year opted to field the latest version of a torpedo prior to finishing early testing and leaving a "primary modification" to the upgraded weapon untested, according to a new report by the director of operational test and evaluation.
Poor performance last year led the Navy to cancel fielding and testing plans for its part of a joint family of systems intended to let the services share intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, according to a new report.
The Navy is planning to test its hypersonic glide body early this calendar year, according to acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly.
The Pentagon's chief weapons tester last year approved a master plan for assessing the Navy's latest purchase of fast-attack submarines, according to a new report published Thursday.
An air-launched, anti-ship missile being purchased by the Navy and Air Force experienced "hardware reliability failures" last year during testing on a strike fighter, according to a new report published Thursday by Pentagon weapon testers.