Oshkosh Corp.'s Cargo-Unmanned Ground Vehicle is looking to make a move from the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab to the Office of Naval Research, a company executive said last week.
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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.
Oshkosh Corp.'s Cargo-Unmanned Ground Vehicle is looking to make a move from the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab to the Office of Naval Research, a company executive said last week.
The Navy's F-35C Joint Strike Fighter training program conducted a successful first flight this week, an official said today.
DALLAS -- While the Army and the Marine Corps are "absolutely committed" to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Marines' ability to fund the program remains uncertain, the JLTV project manager said today.
A Marine Corps official said last week that program managers are now responsible for cybersecurity risk management as well as keeping their program's cost and schedules.
The Office of Naval Research is teaming up with the Marine Corps to find an auxiliary propulsion and electric drive solution for a high water speed Amphibious Combat Vehicle, according to a project officer.
The Navy's second Mobile User Objective System satellite was launched today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, but the military will not be able use the full capability until the satellite's radio terminals are in place, according to an official.
The Navy's X-47B unmanned aircraft is expected to return to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD, later this week after successfully completing two out of four arrested landings on an aircraft carrier, according to a Naval Air Systems Command spokeswoman.
The losing bidder on the Navy's multibillion-dollar Next-Generation Enterprise Network filed a protest today on the contact award, according to a company spokeswoman.
The Navy will use the concept of operations it has developed for the X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator and apply it to future autonomous aircraft operating on carriers, a top service official said today.
The Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System completed its first-ever carrier arrested landing today on the George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) off the coast of Virginia.
The Navy recently tested the V-22 Osprey in an unique carrier airborne delivery mission role on the Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) during a six-day test off the East Coast, according to a service spokesman.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services has won a $3.4 billion contract for the Navy's top information technology program, the Next-Generation Enterprise Network, the service announced late this afternoon.
The Navy has raised the contract ceiling for the legacy Navy-Marine Corps Intranet by about $680 million, from $4.9 billion to $5.6 billion, the Pentagon announced today.
The first Joint Strike Fighter F-35C was delivered on Saturday to Eglin Air Force Base, FL, where it is expected to fly for the first time in August, according to a Navy official.
The Joint Strike Fighter's critical design review for software has slipped about 45 days, along with other minor slips to the program, but the program is not facing any scheduling problems that fundamentally changes its plans, the Pentagon's acquisition chief said today.
House appropriators are unhappy with the Navy's shipbuilding plan and are taking steps to rightsize what they see as an undersized fleet by adding almost $1 billion to the service's budget, according to a draft mark the full committee will vote on tomorrow.
The Marine Corps is on track to a sign a $6.2 billion multiyear contract tomorrow for 99 V-22 Osprey aircraft to be built over five years, according to the joint program manager.
Naval Air Systems Command is spending the first two weeks of June developing plans for how it will handle operations during the Defense Department's civilian furlough period, according to a NAVAIR official.
A draft Government Accountability Office report on the Littoral Combat Ship may cause House lawmakers to take “more stringent actions” on the program's funding before the House and the Senate go to conference on the fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill, a leading House Republican said today.