BAE Systems has been awarded a $10.8 million foreign military sales contract to provide two Assault Amphibious Vehicles for Japan.
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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.
BAE Systems has been awarded a $10.8 million foreign military sales contract to provide two Assault Amphibious Vehicles for Japan.
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While the Navy has pushed back establishing a Joint Strike Fighter fleet integration office from this summer to this fall, the service remains on track for the final F-35C developmental test at sea in August, according to the service.
A senior uniformed Navy official is "concerned" where the overall commonality effort is going in replacing the nuclear triad.
The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union should not have any impact on nuclear deterrence programs and agreements with the United States, according to a U.S. Navy official.
The Naval Research Laboratory recently concluded an evaluation of a prototype built by General Motors for an unmanned undersea vehicle fuel cell that is at the heart of the vehicle's power train, according to the service.
The Navy recently outlined in a legislative proposal to Congress its arguments for repealing language from the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act that would alter the service's latest cruiser modernization plan.
The Marine Corps is looking to modernize the Combat Convoy Simulator it uses for operational deployment training, which includes updating hardware components and a weapon system software refresh, according to the service.
The Marine Corps is on track to be audit-ready one year before the 2017 congressional mandate while the Navy is slated to be auditable in September 2017 to comply with Congress, according to a service official.
The Pentagon recently announced it anticipates awarding a contract to Lockheed Martin in the first quarter of calendar year 2017 for Joint Strike Fighter Lots 12-14.
Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Navy.
Navy leadership has decided to alter the acquisition strategy for the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle by shifting from a traditional, competitive phase between industry prime contractors to one that uses a government system integrator.
The Navy issued a stop-work order June 7 for the maritime search radar that will be integrated on the MQ-8C Fire Scout after Telephonics Corp. filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office.
House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Randy Forbes (R-VA) lost his primary Tuesday evening.
HARTFORD, CT -- F-35 engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney recently completed a test on its corrosion engine test article as part of the overall component improvement program.
HARTFORD, CT -- The final demonstration for the Navy's Fuel Burn Reduction program on the Joint Strike Fighter engine is slated for the first half of calendar year 2017, according to a Pratt & Whitney executive.
Huntington Ingalls industries chief executive officer predicts funding the Ohio-class replacement ballistic missile submarine program will be an annual discussion unless a mechanism is created similar to the Pentagon's wartime funding account.
The White House budget office recently released a sweeping rejection of several provisions in a Senate panel's version of the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill, including those that would dissolve the F-35 joint program office and establish Joint Strike Fighter follow-on development as a separate major defense acquisition program.
Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Navy.
The Danish parliament has approved its government's recommendation to purchase 27 F-35A conventional-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, which makes the country the seventh partner nation to buy the Joint Strike Fighter.