Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Recent testing aboard Lockheed Martin's Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship variant has revealed significant vulnerabilities in the ship's cybersecurity, the Pentagon's top weapons tester wrote in his latest annual report obtained by InsideDefense.com.
Despite the Navy's work to improve the performance of the Littoral Combat Ship's main mine-hunting equipment, the system demonstrated continued performance issues and integration challenges in recent test events, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester.
The Pentagon's top weapons tester is criticizing the Navy for deferring a key test of the new Ford-class aircraft carrier's structural strength from the lead ship to the second ship in the class, according to his latest annual report obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The Pentagon's top weapons tester has concluded that the Navy's modified Littoral Combat Ship, which will be redesignated as a frigate, is not significantly more survivable than the original configuration, according to a copy of his annual report obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The Navy is redesignating the Littoral Combat Ship as a frigate, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced on Thursday.
The Navy has not yet briefed the shipbuilders of the Littoral Combat Ship on the way forward for the small surface combatant because the service is still firming up requirements for the platform, according to a top service official.
The Navy is working to stand up a separate program office for the new small surface combatant within the program executive office for the Littoral Combat Ship, according to the service's top acquisition official.
The Office of Naval Research got a new leader today, as Rear. Adm. Mathias Winter was sworn in as the head of the organization.
Winter officially assumed command of ONR during a change-of-command ceremony on Dec. 30 at the Pentagon, according to a Jan. 5 Navy statement.
The Navy is soliciting proposals from industry for a radar system that would be integrated with the electromagnetic railgun, according to a Dec. 22 notice.
The Navy plans to enhance the weapons, sensors and armor of its Littoral Combat Ship in answer to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's call for a more lethal and survivable small surface combatant, senior Navy officials told reporters late Thursday.
The Navy's modified Littoral Combat Ship will be a multimission platform with increases in survivability and lethality, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a Dec. 11 statement.
House and Senate negotiators in a compromise defense policy deal reached Tuesday deferred a decision on the Navy's proposal to place half of its cruiser fleet in reduced operating status while they are refurbished, directing the Navy to modernize just two vessels in fiscal year 2015.
The Navy's practice of delaying modernization of shipboard systems to save money poses serious cybersecurity risks to the service's platforms, according to the fleet cyber commander.
Norfolk, VA -- The Navy is currently drafting the requirements document for a new fleet of amphibious vessels to replace its aging dock landing ships and anticipates approval of that document by July, according to a service official.
Norfolk, VA -- The Navy must do a better job of explaining the impact of future sequestration cuts on national security to Capitol Hill, the vice chief of naval operations said Tuesday.
The president and chief executive officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries said he is "concerned" about the Navy's continued delay in awarding both the primary construction contract for the next aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy, and the advanced planning contract for refueling the carrier George Washington.
The Marine Corps wants to increase F-35B production from 20 to 24 aircraft per year, according to the service's 2015 aviation plan.
Northrop Grumman is pitching its new digitized, integrated avionics suite to the Navy for use on both rotary and fixed-wing platforms, according to company officials.
Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office have reached an agreement on the next lot of F-35 aircraft, the JPO announced on Monday, noting that the average unit price for all three variants of the airframe would be approximately 3.6 percent lower than the previous contract.
Gen. Joseph Dunford succeeded Gen. James Amos as the 36th Marine Corps commandant in a ceremony today at Marine Barracks, Washington, according to a Pentagon statement.