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Arleigh Burke Program Manager: Flight III Production 'On Track'
This post has been updated to clarify that a new program office for the large surface combatant has not yet been created. Capt. Casey Moton said the current Arleigh Burke program office has a major role in the development effort until a program office for LSC was stood up. ...
New COMSUBPAC to Focus on Combat Operations in Era of Technological Change
The new leader of the Navy's Pacific submarine force pledged to keep the command 'forward-leaning for combat operations'В in an age of fast-moving technological change. 'The pace of that technological innovation continues to grow,' Rear Adm. Blake Converse, the new commander of Submarine Force, U.S. ...
With Tweaks and Upgrades, MV-22B Osprey Poised to Add More Might to the Marines
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Technology and weapons upgrades to the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor will give Marines a better edge in the networked battlespace, a combat pilot said last week. 'The Osprey's mission revolves around one thing… the Marine on the ground. The purpose of the Osprey is to deliver troops, ...
Marines Declare Current ACV Design Meets All Ship-to-Shore Requirements as Testing Continues
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marine Corps has put the Amphibious Combat Vehicle through its paces in the eight months since the service selected BAE Systems to build the new wheeled vehicles, using the original 16 ACVs to conduct high surf testing and cold weather/cold water testing around the country. ...
Artificial Intelligence Could Speed Up Navy Training as New Tech is Rapidly Fielded
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Artificial intelligence could be used not only for faster decision-making on the battlefield but also for faster training as the Navy inserts more weapons and tools onto ships and aircraft, the Navy's top weapons buyer said last week. James Geurts, ...
Navy Retooling Fire Scout Program to Focus on More Complex Warfare Missions
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is rethinking how it will employ its emerging MQ-8C Fire Scout rotary-wing unmanned vehicles to help Littoral Combat Ships take on tougher targets in a new age of great power competition. Within the last year, ...
Naval Exercise Series Continues Push to Find Solutions for Modern Battlefield Problems
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy and Marine Corps are continuing a series of exercises to understand what technologies and tactics the services need to rapidly develop to fight in high-end future conflicts. The goal of each Advanced Naval Technology Exercises, or ANTX, ...
Panel: Navy Advancing Tactics, Adding New Weapons to Boost Combat Lethality
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Each Navy community is updating its tactics and weapons with lethality and a potential high-end distributed fight in mind, several admirals said last week. The submarine community is overhauling its training courses to focus on high-end combat, ...
U.S. Fleet Forces Command Creating Analytics Office to Assess Fleet, Industrial Readiness
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – U.S. Fleet Forces Command announced a new initiative to address operational fleet and industrial base readiness through data analytics. 'We need some fundamental changes in how we approach readiness, how we generate it, analyze it, measure it, integrate it, ...
Destroyer USS Donald Cook Enters Black Sea for Second Time this Year
A Navy guided-missile destroyer is operating in the Black Sea after entering the region earlier on Tuesday. USSВ Donald CookВ (DDG-75)В is scheduled to conduct maritime security operations as part of NATO's ongoing Operation Atlantic Resolve, according to the Navy. ...
Marines Want to Field a Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile 'As Fast As Possible'
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marine Corps wants to select and field a long-range anti-ship missile 'as fast as possible' to support the Navy in a fight for sea control, the commandant told USNI News. The Marine Corps has been refreshing its doctrine and concepts for naval warfare, ...
Senators Urge Caution Ahead of Next Trump-Kim Summit
Two senators are wary there will be any movement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula following this month's summit talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vietnam. ...
Neller: Marines Need $3.5 Billion for Camp Lejeune Repairs, Despite MILCON Cuts for Border Spending
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The commandant of the Marine Corps hopes the Pentagon and Congress can find money for hurricane damage repairs at Camp Lejeune, N.C., despite military construction funding being diverted for the Trump Administration's border security plan. ...
Navy Rolls Out NavalX Agility Office to Connect Innovators With Support, Tools
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy rolled out a Naval Expeditions (NavalX) Agility Office that will connect sailors with innovative ideas to experts who can experiment with them, invest in them or contribute to turning the ideas into something tangible for the Navy. ...
WEST: Marines Expanding Sea Control Laboratory to Test Command and Control Concepts, Gear
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marines are expanding its shore-based, sea control test lab to help ensure sea-going Marines' command and control systems will work once they get aboard ship. ...
CEO: Steady Flow of Navy Contracts Will Keep HII Building for Years
With a two-aircraft carrier buy approved,В contracts for two National Security Cutters and a contract for a guided-missile destroyerВ awarded late last year, Huntington Ingalls IndustriesВ has a healthy backlog of work to keep the company busy for the next several years, ...
Navy Eyes New Ship Repair Contracting to Boost On-Time Delivery; Public Yards' Performance Improving
SAN DIEGO – Just 30 percent of the Navy's destroyers come out of maintenance availabilities on time, the head of Naval Sea Systems Command said, and the service will be taking actions in the coming months to incentivize industry to increase their capacity and improve that on-time figure. Meanwhile, ...
Coast Guard Secures $655 Million for Polar Security Cutters in New Budget Deal
The Coast Guard's long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the programs to receive funding when Congress passed a spending package on late Thursday. ...
WEST: New Rules Are Giving Surface Commanders More Latitude in How They Train
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is giving more power to surface ship commanders to shape the training of their crews via a new set of training rules, officials said Wednesday. The revised Surface Force Training and Readiness Manual, issued in November, ...
Rear Adm. John Nowell Nominated to be Next Chief of Naval Personnel
The Navy's director of military personnel plans and policy, Rear Adm. John Nowell, Jr., has been nominated to become the next chief of naval personnel (N1), USNI News has learned. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Nowell will be promoted to vice admiral and replace the outgoingВ CNP Vice. Adm. ...