Speeding the process for fielding new systems and capabilities is critical to warfighting success, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said at a conference Tuesday.
Monday, April 29, 2024
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Speeding the process for fielding new systems and capabilities is critical to warfighting success, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said at a conference Tuesday.
House appropriators are adding $35 million to a Navy research program to test the viability of large, commercial unmanned undersea vehicles as early as fiscal year 2024.
Senate Armed Services Committee members are looking to protect U.S. assets by calling for a Pentagon report on suspected or confirmed intrusions by unmanned underwater vehicles on or near U.S. military installations.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who chairs the Senate Armed Services seapower subcommittee, said Friday that lawmakers crafting their version of the annual defense authorization bill used their "best military judgment" balanced against spending limits to arrive at a directive for 24 amphibious ships to be available for deployment at any given time.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the defense policy bill would support procurement of 10 ships including a new amphibious transport dock and establish an official nuclear sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) program of record.
The Navy’s acting chief information officer said today that cybersecurity must be "baked into everything" the service does.
The Navy "has an inventory issue" with munitions stockpiles that it is addressing with industry, Rear Adm. Fred Pyle, director of the Surface Warfare Division, said today.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is calling for an assessment of U.S. maritime capabilities in the Arctic in fiscal year 2024, as activities by Russia and China increase across the region.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee wants to allocate 16 F-35B Lightnings -- the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing variants (STOVLs) -- for the Marine Corps plus 19 F-35C carrier variants for the Navy and Marines.
The Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness, launched to provide a near-real time view of waters and shores in an increasingly contested realm, will "be live across the region" by the end of the calendar year, Lindsey Ford, deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, said today.
An industry day is scheduled for July 12 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA, for vendors with current capabilities for an Installation-Counter small Unmanned Aircraft System (I-CsUAS), according to a notice published by the Navy.
Northrop Grumman recently completed a successful preliminary design review of Relay Ground Station-Asia for the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific's missile warning system.
As part of a "time-critical parts modification," Boeing will deliver to the Navy a "subset of technical data" for production of Super Hornet strike fighters, a Navy spokeswoman told Inside Defense.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger warned today that in this modern era of global warfighting environment, logistics are at a greater risk of attack from cyber breaches and other types of strikes against the industrial supply chain.
A naval air warfare rapid capabilities program office to guide the development of nontraditional "rapid-reaction" weapons is proposed in draft legislation that House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) submitted in his chairman's mark of the fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill.
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee is asking the Navy to schedule briefings with lawmakers by Dec. 1 on plans for developing, deploying and integrating uncrewed vessels and autonomous vehicle technology into maritime operations.
The House Armed Services readiness subcommittee’s draft of the fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill proposes to withhold up to 50% of amphibious warship funds until lawmakers receive a briefing on the vessels' operational status.
The Navy has announced plans to undertake a supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) as it seeks to update homeport facilities at Naval Air Station North Island in California for three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that support the Pacific fleet.
Plans for delivering the next five John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oilers are delayed between 22 months and two and a half years because of shipyard challenges, according to the Government Accountability Office's latest annual weapon system assessment report.
Raytheon Technologies has been awarded a $2 billion fixed-priced contract to buy engine parts for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike for the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy, as well as foreign military service participants and other non-U.S. defense customers.