The Pentagon's watchdog agency claims the Navy overpaid by $2.1 million on sole-source spare parts for the ScanEagle unmanned air system following an audit conducted from June 2015 through March 2016.
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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.
The Pentagon's watchdog agency claims the Navy overpaid by $2.1 million on sole-source spare parts for the ScanEagle unmanned air system following an audit conducted from June 2015 through March 2016.
The Navy recently awarded eight design contracts totaling about $4 million for the surface connector replacement vessels that operates from the service's amphibious assault ships.
The submarine industrial base will have to expand in order to simultaneously build Ohio-class replacement ballistic missile submarines and Virginia-class attack submarines with a payload module.
Naval Air Systems Command is preparing to enter the second phase of its integration effort for the radar on the MQ-8C Fire Scout.
Rear Adm. Brian Antonio has left his post as program executive officer for the Littoral Combat Ship to become the next PEO for aircraft carriers.
The Navy recently awarded a $46 million contract to Straub Construction Inc. for F-35C carrier variant hangar modernization and building an extension to house the aircraft at the first West Coast base.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said last week he is "struck" by the secondary effects of the Navy's readiness funding shortfall, after hearing testimony from several Navy officers.
Senate appropriators want to rescind $1.3 billion allocated for the Navy's cruiser modernization program because the service has failed to follow congressional direction for several years, according to a report accompanying the fiscal year 2017 spending bill obtained by Inside Defense.
The Congressional Research Service this week issued a report on Navy force structure and shipbuilding plans.
F-35 operational testing has been delayed by about six months because the joint program office cannot retrofit 23 jets needed for the test event, according to an official.
The Senate Armed Services Committee wants to block the Navy from installing the Advanced Arresting Gear on the aircraft carrier Enterprise until the service entertains alternatives to landing an aircraft aboard a carrier, according to the committee's mark-up of the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill.
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The Navy has accepted the lead ship of its next-generation of multimission surface combatants, the Zumwalt, according to a May 20 service statement.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is directing the Pentagon weapons buyer to certify Littoral Combat Ship mission packages as a program of record when the fiscal year 2018 budget is submitted, according to the FY-17 defense policy bill released May 20.
General Dynamics Electric Boat on May 20 will submit its proposal to the Navy for detailed design of the multimillion-dollar Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine program, according to a service official.
Newport News Shipbuilding plans to have the first "drawing-less" ship by CVN-80, which will yield about a 15 percent cost savings for the multibillion-dollar aircraft carrier, according to the company president.
Boeing is in initial discussions with the Navy on developing an automatic backup oxygen system for the F/A-18 Super Hornet driven by the House Armed Services Committee's call for potential installation of the equipment, according to a company executive.
The Navy recently completed dead-load testing for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System that will be aboard its new class of supercarriers, according to a service official.
House appropriators are "disappointed" the Navy is attempting to renegotiate its cruiser modernization plan and remain "adamant" the service will not lay up half of the cruiser fleet.
The Marine Corps recently held its first quarterly review of the fleet management program, which is a way to look at equipment across the program executive office for land systems portfolio.