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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 F-35 joint program office is determining what data rights it needs from Lockheed Martin and lower level suppliers to continue Joint Strike Fighter modernization and production sustainment, according to the program's senior official.
The Navy and Marine Corps have requested roughly $1.7 billion in their fiscal year 2019 unfunded priorities list, a number that is drastically lower compared to previous years, because of an increase in top line budget funding, according to the Navy secretary.
The Marine Corps' fiscal year 2019 budget priorities include a commercial-off-the-shelf air defense missile, an expeditionary unmanned aerial vehicle and long-range fires, according to a senior officer.
The Strategic Capabilities Office is spending nearly $500 million in fiscal year 2019 for Navy and Marine Corps related projects including a new-start project, dubbed Kingfisher, to increase the range of lightweight torpedoes.
Nearly three months after establishing a Littoral Combat Ship program office to support Saudi Arabia's expected LCS purchase, the Navy has awarded a $481 million contract for Multi-Mission Surface Combatant long-lead materials.
The Navy and Marine Corps today deployed the F-35B short-takeoff-and-landing variant for the first-ever shipboard deployment.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy.
The Navy set aside $75 million in its other procurement account in the fiscal year 2019 budget request for oversight and management of the Littoral Combat Ship program, according to a service spokeswoman.
The Marine Corps is seeking an additional $235.9 million for infrastructure improvements in its fiscal year 2019 unfunded priorities list.
The Navy is requesting $1.5 billion in unfunded priorities with the bulk going to ship maintenance, according to the service's fiscal year 2019 unfunded priorities list.
The Navy awarded a $7 million contract to Ingalls Shipbuilding for dock landing ship replacement program acceleration and affordability initiatives.
The F-35 joint program office and Lockheed Martin will hold a "Consideration Summit" in a few months to discuss software deficiencies and make sure the government does not pay for the same product twice.
The Navy never reaches its 355-ship fleet goal in the 30-year shipbuilding plan recently sent to Congress, leaving naval analysts and others disappointed in the service achieving its inventory objective.
The Navy has identified a slew of modifications for its Littoral Combat Ship program and is requesting $70 million in fiscal year 2019 to begin tackling those projects.
An influential Republican senator is unveiling legislation today to improve the Navy's surface force readiness that includes language providing new authorities for the service's acquisition executive.
The Marine Corps will conduct a yearlong analysis of alternatives for the Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle program, which is a new-start effort in the fiscal year 2019 budget request.
A sailor was pronounced dead Saturday after being struck earlier in the week by a spinning UH-1Y Venom tail rotor blade, according to a Marine Corps statement.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy.
The Navy late last week awarded Ingalls Shipbuilding a $1.4 billion contract modification to begin the detail design and construction of LPD-29.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Navy.