The Government Accountability Office this week denied a protest by Raytheon contesting sole-source contracts to Lockheed Martin for Aegis modernization work on Navy surface combatants.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The Government Accountability Office this week denied a protest by Raytheon contesting sole-source contracts to Lockheed Martin for Aegis modernization work on Navy surface combatants.
The Navy should grow its fleet to 325 ships by 2025 -- 12 more than the Navy has planned -- and pay for the increase by moving to lower-cost platforms and cutting unnecessary requirements like the top speed on the new Littoral Combat Ship, a Washington think tank says in a report released this morning.
Pentagon acquisition czar John Young today criticized the welds on the Northrop Grumman-built San Antonio (LPD-17), but said it remains to be seen if current problems with the ship lie with the builder or with the Navy.
When it comes to the effect that a potentially diminished Defense Department budget in the next administration might have on science and technology research and development, at least one defense official said he’s pretty frightened.
The U.S. Supreme Court today lifted restrictions imposed by lower courts on the Navy's sonar training exercises off the California coast, dealing a blow to environmentalists who have argued that mid-frequency active sonar is harmful to whales.
A long-running fight between the Navy and environmentalists over the use of mid-frequency sonar in a training range off the coast of Southern California, and the potential harm it could inflict on whales, found itself before the nine justices of the Supreme Court today.
The AN/WLD-1 Remote Minehunting System for the still-to-come Littoral Combat Ship is undergoing training and technical evaluation aboard the destroyer Bainbridge (DDG-96) in South Florida waters in preparation for operational evaluation in September, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division announced last week.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff disagreed Friday with a recent report that argued the Coast Guard's Deepwater acquisition program should receive greater oversight from his department, saying the relationship between the service and DHS was in a "good place" and the Coast Guard best knows what it needs.
While a fiscal year 2008 supplemental war spending bill languishes in Congress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen urged the Senate appropriations defense subcommittee today to authorize a $70 billion FY-09 war supplemental on top the Pentagon's $515.4 billion baseline budget.