Highlights from this week's edition of Inside the Navy.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 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.
Highlights from this week's edition of Inside the Navy.
The Navy is making plans to release a request for proposals that will result in a $6 billion contract award for the Navy's top acquisition priority: the Ohio-class replacement program, according to a service official.
The Navy's heavyweight torpedo restart program is "next to impossible" for the service to execute under a continuing resolution, according to an official.
The price for each Joint Strike Fighter would increase by $1 million for the entire F-35 enterprise if Canada or another country decides to decrease its purchase by 65 aircraft, a senior Pentagon official revealed this week.
The Pentagon's top weapons tester has discovered the Navy's Joint High Speed Vessel cannot effectively interoperate with the Mobile Landing Platform in the open ocean, according to a memo obtained by Inside Defense.
The Marine Corps recently confirmed it would only be able to purchase seven out of the planned 109 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles under a yearlong continuing resolution, a shortfall Inside Defense first covered in a special report.
Highlights from this week's Inside the Navy:
If the Navy cannot control the cost of its next-generation aircraft carrier fleet, then the service must be willing to pursue other alternatives such as building smaller, less expensive aircraft carriers to bring new competitors in the market, according to a report released by an influential senator.
Highlights from this week's Inside the Navy:
The new Navy and Marine Corps chiefs have met "several times" and tentatively identified three priorities for the naval forces, according to a senior Marine Corps official.
The Navy is still recovering from a continuing resolution imposed two years ago and a "degree of sequestration" in 2013 that is "relatively minor" to the fiscal uncertainty the service is facing in 2016, according to the Navy's top acquisition executive.
The Navy recently began the second phase of developmental testing for the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter carrier variant off the eastern coast of the United States, according to an F-35 joint program office statement.
The Navy and Marine Corps budget for fiscal year 2016 faces a $2.8 billion shortfall under the three-month continuing resolution approved by lawmakers this week, according to a Navy "information paper" obtained by InsideDefense.com.
The Navy must better identify programmatic risks before asking Congress to authorize and appropriate funding for a major acquisition program such as the multibillion-dollar Ford-class aircraft carrier, according to the service's acquisition executive.
F-35 program officials are not concerned about significant impacts under a short-term continuing resolution, but told InsideDefense.com this week that a long-term CR would be "detrimental" to plans to ramp up Joint Strike Fighter production.
House and Senate conferees have granted the Navy waiver authority to postpone shock trials for the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).
The Navy recently released a final request for proposals for the MQ-8C Fire Scout maritime search radar, according to a Federal Business Opportunities notice.
Lockheed Martin this week revealed it has partnered with Caterpillar, Horstman and Merrill Industries for its entry into the Marine Corps' next-generation amphibious vehicle competition, according to a company executive.
Lockheed Martin will unveil its next-generation amphibious vehicle competition offering at next week's Modern Day Marine military exposition since splitting up with Finnish vehicle manufacturer Patria, according to a company spokesman.
If sequestration continues, China's military will become a "problem" for the United States in the mid-2020s as long as the Asian country continues the trajectory of its military buildup, according to the U.S. Pacific Command chief.