Tuesday, April 23, 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 Marine Corps has conducted two debriefs regarding the next-generation amphibious vehicle contract award and four out of the five competing vendors confirmed to Inside Defense they requested face-to-face meetings with the government.
During the second-ever deployment of a Marine Corps crisis-response force to U.S. Central Command, the unit's main focus was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, according to the commanding officer.
The Navy is determining what capabilities are needed for a small unmanned aerial system to conduct surveillance missions similar to those of a rigid-hulled inflatable boat, according to a Naval Air Systems Command official.
Naval Air Systems Command recently directed Boeing to conduct analysis on carrying palletized materials aboard a P-8 Poseidon aircraft with the information due to the service in March, according to a Navy spokeswoman.
The Navy and Marine Corps are developing a littoral operations in a contested environment concept and plan to discuss it at a naval board in early December, according to a service official.
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The Marine Corps is working toward its goal of having Marines operate the Joint Strike Fighter's Autonomic Logistics Information System 100 percent of the time and not rely on Lockheed Martin personnel, according to a program official.
BAE Systems and Science Applications International Corp. have both won multimillion-dollar contracts for the Marine Corps' lucrative next-generation amphibious vehicle competition to build 13 prototypes apiece, according to a Defense Department contract announcement.
A few must-reads from this week's Inside the Navy.
The Marine Corps is on track to declare the RQ-21A Blackjack operational in either December or January, according to a service official.
The Navy recently kicked off its rapid prototyping process for unmanned vehicles that will begin with the fiscal year 2017 budget, according to a service official.
A senior Pentagon review board has approved the Marine Corps' next-generation amphibious vehicle program for an early production phase and the service expects to award contracts within a week.
A small crack has been found in a non-flying test version of the F-35C carrier variant, according to the Joint Strike Fighter program office.
The Joint Strike Missile, which is specifically designed to fit inside the F-35A weapons bay, completed its first flight test in the United States last week.
Highlights from this week's edition of Inside the Navy.
The Navy will not implement a two-phased delivery strategy for CVN-80 like it has for the previous aircraft carrier in the class and will finalize procurement of the ship in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, according to a service spokeswoman.
F/A-18E/F manufacturer Boeing could support a Navy request to build additional Super Hornets as long as the service purchases jets in fiscal years 2016, 2017, and 2018, according to a company spokeswoman.
PORTSMOUTH, VA -- The Navy recently submitted the capabilities development document for a new amphibious warship to the Joint Staff and anticipates wrapping up the preliminary design phase for the ship -- dubbed LX(R) -- this spring, according to a service official.
The Marine Corps remains confident in its next-generation amphibious vehicle acquisition, even though a government oversight office recently found the program poses potential risks.
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