Expanding the defense industrial base workforce to produce the Virginia-class submarines needed to satisfy the AUKUS security pact will require immigration reform, according to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
Saturday, December 7, 2024
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Expanding the defense industrial base workforce to produce the Virginia-class submarines needed to satisfy the AUKUS security pact will require immigration reform, according to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
A $100 million offer from South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Systems and Hanwha Oceans to buy the Philadelphia-based Philly Shipyard has the support of Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, who has previously encouraged foreign investment in the U.S. industrial base.
The Navy is seeking industry input on the future of shipboard power and energy as the service looks to update its Naval Power and Energy Systems Technology Development Roadmap, according to a request for information published today.
The Navy and Marine Corps have adopted a new guidance document intended to streamline amphibious warship readiness criteria in a bid to improve fleet performance and facilitate better planning and joint decision making, according to a Monday announcement from the two services.
The Navy’s Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer program could see delivery delays of six-to-25 months for the 13 vessels following lead ship Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), according to the Government Accountability Office’s annual weapon system report, which points to performance issues with the program’s two prime contractors.
The Senate Armed Services Committee supports the purchase of a second Virginia-class submarine and a third Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in fiscal year 2025 while restricting funding for two of the Navy’s surface ship programs, according to an executive summary of the committee’s defense authorization bill.
The Navy has learned a lot in the eight months since it began intercepting missiles in the Red Sea, but the service is only able to leverage a fraction of the sensor data its warships are collecting due to limitations in shipboard data storage.
House appropriators' decision to fund only one Virginia-class submarine while slashing procurement in two surface ship programs was driven by concern over production delays and design maturity issues within the programs, according to a draft House Appropriations Committee report on its fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill obtained by Inside Defense.
Anduril Industries has secured a $19 million Navy contract to design, build and test solid-rocket motors for the Standard Missile-6 in an award that closely follows the company's announcement of a new $75 million investment plan intended to dramatically increase rocket motor output at its McHenry, MS facility.
A large defense labor union is calling on Congress to fund two Virginia-class submarines in its fiscal year 2025 spending legislation in a June 4 letter addressed to the leadership of the House Appropriations Committee, which is set to mark up its version of the bill Thursday.
The Navy has awarded RTX a $678 million option for SPY-6 radar production, covering the procurement of seven additional AN/SPY-6(V) units and bringing the total contract value up to 38 of the radars.
A draft defense spending bill released today by House appropriators would fund only four battle force ships and only one Virginia-class submarine in fiscal year 2025, marking a significant break from both the Navy's budget request and from House authorizers' defense policy bill.
The Marine Corps is testing the waters to see if any additional vendors can produce a remotely operated turret system for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle 30mm cannon variant, according to a sources-sought notice published today.
The Marine Corps is preparing for an initial "fly-off" test that will evaluate two drone prototypes competing for a future program of record that will field a medium-size uncrewed aircraft system to deliver supplies to forward-deployed forces.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with an effort to develop small, ship-launched drones, clearing six companies to advance their designs into a 10-month maturation phase, according to a May 22 agency announcement.
A new report from government auditors points to a lack of design stability, stemming from critical mismanagement by the Navy, as the key factor responsible for years of delays now expected for the $22 billion Constellation-class frigate program.
The Navy has awarded shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine a $1 billion contract option to build the fifth and sixth vessels in the Constellation-class frigate program, according to a Pentagon announcement.
The House proposal to zero out fiscal year 2025 procurement funding for the Constellation-class frigate program would have occurred even if lawmakers were not looking to free up funds for a second Virginia-class submarine, a senior Armed Services Committee member said today.
An amendment to the House defense policy bill, passed in committee today, would require the Navy to complete 100% of a new shipbuilding program's design before beginning construction of the first vessel.
The Navy stood up a new unmanned surface vessel squadron last week that will oversee a fleet of small uncrewed vessels called Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft (GARC), according to a May 17 service announcement.