Prior to joining Breaking Defense, Justin Katz reported on the Navy and Marine Corps as an associate editor for Inside Defense, where he focused on the services' largest acquisition programs and congressional committees overseeing them. Justin has also covered the federal government's cybersecurity policies and programs for FCW and a worked as a general news reporter in both Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Katz graduated from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., in 2015 with a degree in communications focusing on journalism and is a native of Long Island, N.Y.
“We are all in on Philly, and we're looking at expanding even in and around Philly shipyard, but ultimately, it’s a geographically isolated island where there’s not enough space to do everything that we’d like to do. So, we are looking at other opportunities," Hanwha Global Defense chief Michael Coulter told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
The US Coast Guard in recent months has been signaling to industry it would soon advance its Arctic Security Cutter program through a series of requests for information and discussions with vendors from multiple countries.
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The competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman is the most highly anticipated contract outside the service's shipbuilding portfolio.
"This is a pivotal time for the Navy and U.S. shipbuilding writ large. Tom brings a wealth of experience and unique perspectives that will accelerate the delivery of novel solutions to our customers' most elusive industrial base challenges,” said Hanwha Defense USA President and CEO Mike Smith.
Coast Guard and Pentagon officials told Breaking Defense China has steadily increased its patrols near the northernmost state since 2021.
A number of other top civilian positions in the Navy's civilian leadership remain filled by acting officials.
Defending a country the size of the US from threats requires advanced sensing, communications and interception capabilities.
The new chief of Naval policy will wholly replace what was the deputy undersecretary of the Navy for policy.
The new multi-year buy is the first of its kind for the program of record, which is slated to purchase 200 helicopters in total.
The startup, launched earlier this year by three Navy veterans, is aiming to produce capable USVs en masse.
The solicitation for fiscal 2026 through 2033 will be to “design the Future X-Band Radar (FXR), and to build, integrate, and test FXR Engineering Development Models (EDMs) and deliver multiple low-rate initial production (LRIP) units,” according to a Navy notice.
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
"We have got to reflect prices that can allow us to have the labor pool that we need for the long term,” said the Navy official.
In its solicitation, the Defense Innovation Unit explicitly cited the border patrol mission that the White House has prioritized since taking office.
“We spent over two years looking at different shipyards in the US and potential acquisition targets,” Davie Defense CEO Kai Skvarla told Breaking Defense in an interview today.
Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney also weighed in, carefully, on whether the Navy needs a next-gen fighter jet.