Sunday, January 19, 2025
Key Issues MADCAP SPY-6 radars Regional Sustainment Framework
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 Navy has issued detailed guidance for building a five-year budget plan that puts the onus for funding shortfalls on individual program offices and accounts for fluctuations that may occur during the upcoming change of administrations.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Marine Corps must determine by 2025 whether to pursue a high-water-speed option getting troops from the ship to the beach or buy a slower wheeled or tracked vehicle to support its lift requirements.
The Navy is changing how it builds future budgets and realigning headquarters staff to support that change to emphasize earlier in the process the service's strategic goals, according to the vice chief of naval operations.
The Navy and Marine Corps are looking to use a research and development funding mechanism to "rapidly prototype capabilities" that are in the early stages of concept development, according to a Navy official.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Marine Corps will push Congress to fund budget line items that support the service's new operating concept in the fiscal year 2019 budget, according to an official.
After a successful operational test period, the Marine Corps recently released a final request for proposals for the second phase of its Common Aviation Command and Control System.
The Navy recently completed the long-awaited first fly-in recovery of an F/A-18E Super Hornet with the Advanced Arresting Gear that will be part of the service's next-generation aircraft carrier.
The Pentagon recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $743 million contract modification for the ninth lot of Joint Strike Fighter jets.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- At the end of the month both the Marine Corps commandant and the chief of naval operations will sign off on a concept focused on littoral operations in a contested environment.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- Marine Corps Systems Command will be reorganized by the end of fiscal year 2017 to better serve the Marine Air-Ground Task Force, according to a service official.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy.
Despite a recent contractor bid protest for the next-generation amphibious vehicle the Marine Corps anticipates prototype delivery in February, according to the service.
In an effort to accelerate the traditional acquisition process, the Navy and Marine Corps invited industry to submit white papers on technologies that will be demonstrated in April.
The Marine Corps does not have a finalized acquisition strategy for the next increment of its next-generation amphibious vehicle program and may open up competition to vendors that are not participating in the first phase of the effort, according to the service.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy.
The Navy is considering whether to continue serial production of the Virginia-class submarine instead of designing an attack submarine replacement, according to a service official.
The commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force announced today that ongoing investigations relating to an AV-8B Harrier crash do not identify the incident's cause as systemic of the aircraft, aircrew or maintenance.
Oshkosh Defense has the capacity to build Joint Light Tactical Vehicles for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps while concurrently producing vehicles for a foreign government such as the United Kingdom.
The Marine Corps is taking a new approach to equipping the infantryman by purchasing commercial solutions so that the gear is fielded at a faster rate than with the traditional acquisition process.
The Marine Corps recently awarded a sole-source contract to Science Applications International Corp. to upgrade the electrical system of the legacy amphibious vehicle as part of a survivability upgrade effort, according to the service and the company.