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 Pentagon's chief weapons tester was unable to incorporate the final iteration of the Joint Strike Fighter's Block 3F software under the system development and demonstration phase because of the deadline for filing the 2017 report, according to the F-35 joint program office.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host in March a classified meeting, known as the "Sea of Dreams," to share technology challenges in U.S. Pacific Fleet with industry, academic and government organizations.
The Defense Department chartered the Stand-Off Weapons Defeat Joint Integrated Product Team to study "state-of-the-art" unmanned undersea vehicle countermeasures, according to a Federal Business Opportunities notice.
The Navy on Friday awarded Ingalls Shipbuilding a roughly $30 million contract to repair and restore the guided missile destroyer Fitzgerald (DDG-62), which was damaged in a collision last year.
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The F-35 program office has not purchased another F-35B ground article nearly a year after halting durability testing because the originial test jet was no longer production representative.
Florida senators Bill Nelson (D) and Marco Rubio (R) are urging President Trump to include funding in the fiscal year 2019 budget to homeport a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at Naval Station Mayport, FL.
The Navy will complete the operational evaluation of the America-class amphibious assault ship's ability to support 20 Joint Strike Fighters in fiscal year 2020, according to a new Pentagon report.
Aviation readiness is the Marine Corps' biggest challenge after suffering 12 Class A aviation mishaps last year, according to the service's top officer.
The Pentagon's operational test and evaluation community is at odds with the Navy on the level of self-defense capability needed for an Expeditionary Sea Base, dubbed a T-ESB.
The president has selected Rear Adm. Johnny Wolfe to lead the Navy's strategic systems programs, which includes the manufacture and sustainment of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
The Expeditionary Sea Base Hershel "Woody" Williams (T-ESB-4) completed the first-ever integrated trials for the ship class, according to the Navy.
BAE Systems has an adaptable gun mount the Navy could use as a common launching system to increase fire power that bolts onto the deck of a ship, according to a company executive.
The Marine Corps plans to kick off in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021 a new competition to replace its aging Light Armored Vehicle fleet.
Lockheed Martin's offering for the Navy's guided-missile frigate replacement is based on the company's Littoral Combat Ship hull form and is focused on anti-submarine and surface warfare, according to a company executive.
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The Navy is using surface action groups in various scenarios to train junior surface warfare officers, who are just finishing their first division tour, in advanced tactics similar to the aviation community's Top Gun schoolhouse.
The Littoral Combat Ship Little Rock (LCS-9) will remain in Montreal, Canada, until wintry weather conditions improve and the ship is able to transit through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
The damaged guided-missile destroyer Fitzgerald (DDG-62) arrived in Mississippi today aboard the heavy-lift vessel MV Transshelf from Japan.
The Navy will use a rapid acquisition strategy for the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle as a model for other acquisition programs.