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.
The Marine Corps is working on a request to be signed by the heads of U.S. European and Africa commands to have a Mobile Landing Platform support those regions beginning in 2017, according to the service's top uniformed official.
The Navy is looking to engage more with small businesses in the information technology realm and has developed a new construct deemed the “innovation cell” to work with industry, according to a service official.
The Navy has sent Congress an unfunded priorities list for fiscal year 2016 totaling $2.7 billion, the majority of which would go toward the purchase of 12 F/A-18F Super Hornets and eight F-35C carrier variant aircraft, according to a copy of the list obtained by InsideDefense.com.
An influential senator is concerned about the current requirements the Navy has proposed for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike platform -- its first unmanned combat aircraft program -- and requests the service extend the use of another remotely piloted system, according to a recent letter.
As the Navy and Marine Corps request additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from Congress in their fiscal year 2016 unfunded priorities lists, the increased quantity will not greatly impact the price of the jets, according to the program chief.
The Marine Corps is working to resolve an issue with the Pentagon's oversight agency on the withdrawal of a clean audit report the service received in 2013 due to subsequently discovered facts, according to a service spokesman.
The Marine Corps has sent Congress an unfunded priorities list for fiscal year 2016 totaling $2.1 billion, the bulk of which would go toward the purchase of six additional Lockheed Martin-manufactured F-35B Joint Strike Fighters, according to a document obtained by InsideDefense.com.
As the Navy's Joint Standoff Weapon triggers a "critical" Nunn-McCurdy cost breach due to the service's decision to terminate production after this fiscal year, JSOW producer Raytheon is in talks with the Pentagon and Capitol Hill about maintaining the line.
Program costs for the DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer program increased by 4.6 percent, or about $4,303.3 million, to $98,327.5 million overall, according to the Defense Department's latest Selected Acquisition Report.
The Joint Strike Fighter program office will not make modifications to the weapons bay of the Marine Corps F-35 variant until partner nations have completed weapons development, according to an official.
The maritime services are highlighting a new concept known as “all domain access” which describes how the military will organize, train and equip its forces as part of an updated maritime strategy that was recently released by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
BAE Systems will not protest the Marine Corps' selection of Science Applications International Corp. as the winner of the $857 million Amphibious Assault Vehicle Survivability Upgrade Program, clearing the way for the next round of an ongoing competition to modernize the service's amphibious assault vehicle fleet -- an expected five-way contest for a $2 billion project: the Amphibious Combat Vehicle Increment 1.1.
The Marine Corps contends that under sequestration cuts that may be imposed in fiscal year 2016, the service's next-generation amphibious vehicle would be "indefinitely delayed," a drastically different position from what the Navy's acquisition chief has stated.
The Marine Corps recently held a "paper down select" between two vendors to build prototypes for its multimillion-dollar Assault Amphibious Vehicle survivability upgrade effort, selecting Science Applications International Corp. as the winner, a Marine Corps spokesman and an SAIC spokeswoman confirmed to Inside the Navy this week.
Norway and Australia recently agreed to cooperate on developing the Joint Strike Missile that will be introduced as a weapon on the Joint Strike Fighter in the 2020s, according to a statement.
The Marine Corps is reevaluating whether it will fund a humvee upgrade program in its fiscal year 2017 budget process due to a tactical vehicle gap the service expects to face while waiting for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle to enter the fleet, according to a top official.
An influential House lawmaker opposes the Navy's plan to deliver the next-generation aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in two phases -- a plan designed to reduce costs -- because he contends the ship will enter the fleet two years later than originally anticipated.
The Navy and Missile Defense Agency have conducted an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense non-intercept sensor test where three targets were tracked simultaneously, according to a Feb. 24 MDA statement.
The Marine Corps' crisis-response force supporting U.S. Africa Command expanded its mission set during a recent deployment by providing tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel in the region, according to a service official.
As the Navy resubmits a plan to mothball half its cruiser fleet, detailed in its fiscal year 2016 budget submission, the chairman of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee is vowing to defeat the proposal.