Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Lee Hudson was Inside the Navy's managing editor until June 2018. She has covered Navy and Marine Corps issues since 2011, reporting at the Pentagon, Capitol Hill, aboard ships and military facilities around the U.S. Previously she worked as a staff reporter at The Daily Review in Morgan City, LA, covering local government and crime. Lee graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication and Marketing from Loyola University New Orleans.
The decision to enact a continuing resolution until March is detrimental for the Navy's top acquisition priority -- the next-generation ballistic submarine program -- and work may come to a “screeching halt” on Jan. 1 unless Congress steps in.
The Marine Corps is looking for a small unmanned aerial system to equip each Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad after identifying a gap in a requirements document last year, according to the service.
The Marine Corps is working with Spain and Italy on a component improvement program for the F-402 Pegasus propulsion system on the AV-8B Harrier, according to Naval Air Systems Command.
The Center for Budgetary and Strategic Assessments unveiled a report today that calls for a new strategic approach for amphibious warfare and recommends a fleet of 40 amphibious ships and increased firepower for Marines storming the beach.
President-elect Donald Trump's plan to grow the Marine Corps to 36 battalions equates to force of about 210,000 and could be accomplished in three or four years, according to a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy.
Two single-seat F/A-18 Hornets, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, CA, experienced a mid-air collision today during a training mission off the coast of San Diego.
President-elect Donald Trump's goal of a 350-ship Navy will cost the U.S. taxpayer "several billion dollars" above the previously estimated $21 billion per year to have 308 ships in the inventory, according to a congressional source.
The Navy's top acquisition priority -- the Ohio-class Replacement Submarine -- is on hold to pass its next major milestone decision until the program office works through two data points to satisfy the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, according to multiple sources.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) outlined his extreme disappointment on another delay to the development phase of the Joint Strike Fighter program in a recent letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The Pentagon exercised a rarely used contracting mechanism when awarding the recent $6.1 billion deal to Lockheed Martin for the ninth lot of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, according to multiple sources familiar with the program.
The real question facing the next-generation ballistic submarine program is how to pay for the program because all of the mechanisms inside the Pentagon are in place, according to Mike Petters, chief executive of Huntington Ingalls.
To Lockheed Martin's chagrin, the Pentagon "definitized" a $6.1 billion deal today for the ninth lot of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
The Navy will resume testing the main turbine generators on the next-generation megacarrier Gerald R. Ford within the next couple of weeks and will set a commissioning date by the end of the calendar year, according to an official.
The Navy has gotten the fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite to "an operational condition" after a propulsion system failure, according to an official.
Five Joint Strike Fighter "B"-variant aircraft landed on the amphibious assault ship America for testing last week, according to the Navy.
The Marine Corps' large, sea-based unmanned aerial system recently received approval from the Joint Requirements Oversight Council and the service is awaiting a materiel development decision, according to a service official.
The Navy has congressional support for its Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle phased rapid prototyping strategy, according to a service official.
Although the Navy plans to clear the next major milestone decision for the multibillion-dollar, next-generation ballistic missile submarine next week, the program may come to a “screeching halt” on Jan. 1 unless Congress steps in.
The Navy revealed today the next milestone decision for the multibillion-dollar next-generation ballistic missile submarine will occur next week.