This Week's Inside the Navy

By Lee Hudson / August 3, 2015 at 10:45 AM

From this week's edition of Inside the Navy:

1. The Navy plans to purchase 22 DDG-51 Flight III fleet of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that will cost $56 billion -- a previously unreported total sticker price.

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2. The highly anticipated contract award for the Army and Marine Corps' humvee replacement -- the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle -- will take place in mid-September, according to sources.

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3. The Defense Department will buy an additional 132 Standard Missile-3 Block IIA Interceptors above what was originally planned as part of the European Phased Adaptive Approach in order to mitigate the cancellation of the SM-3 Block II B program.

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