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.
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“We were able to … create new software and put new communication waveforms through the system and demonstrate a class a wave forms it could be critical to the Navy as they look at Project Overmatch,” said Mike Meaney, a Northrop Grumman official.
“The Navy’s going to have a huge problem,” Mark Cancian, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said of the service’s likely budget squeeze.
“We’ve got FFG-62. We’re going to have another DDG variant at some point and then we’ve got the unmanned stuff. How do I introduce it to the fleet? What does that look like?” said Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the service’s top surface warfare officer.
A senior Navy admiral says the service is “pretty good” at firefighting at sea, but conceded “education” and “spot checking” is necessary at the shipyards.
The Navy recently completed a 3-week at-sea testing period for MCM USV and are awaiting the results before moving forward with a full-rate production contract.
Rear Adm. Bill Houston described a submarine that boasts the payload and speed of the Seawolf-class submarines, the acoustics and senors of Virginia-class and the operational availability and service life of the Columbia-class submarines.
A senior naval aviation officer says a change to the F-35C squadrons, additional reserve aircraft from other services and a successful maintenance program will be key to resolving the longstanding shortfall.
Overlord is the Pentagon’s somewhat secretive USV development program to inform the technology and capabilities that will one day be aboard most unmanned Navy ships and subs.
House lawmakers are irritated by the service’s choice to request a DDG-51 Flight III destroyer on their annual wish list, rather than design a budget that incorporated it.
