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PENTAGON: The Navy would get the largest budget share among the three military services in the 2014 budget submitted Wednesday, but would still see a drop in total funding from what Congress provided for this year in the final version of the continuing resolution. The $155.8 billion requested for the Navy Department in the president’s…
By Otto KreisherGeneral Atomics is ready to rewrite the rules of airpower … again
No other aerospace and defense manufacturer is poised to deliver a CCA as capable as the one built by General Atomics, or one as economical, producible, and flexible.
UPDATED: Includes Info About Sub Deployment Skeds; Past Major Sub Fixes WASHINGTON: The Navy is telling Congress that the nuclear-powered USS Miami suffered $400 million to $500 million in damages from the impressive fire that injured seven and left the ship a smoldering mass at drydock. The estimate is being provided at congressional request and…
By Colin ClarkWashington: The Navy says it will be able to crank out two new Virginia-class submarines within 60 months, or almost two years faster than in the past. The Naval Sea Systems Command has already begun construction on SSN 787 this month, which NAVSEA officials anticipate will be completed within 65 months, according to a command…
By Carlo Munoz
“I’d like to see in a Harris administration, a commitment to the innovation reform agenda at DoD,” said HASC Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith. “That really has, I think, stalled a little bit.”
By Valerie Insinna
The Navy’s two major submarine programs would both face setbacks.
By Justin Katz
A senior Commerce Department official said the policies had already been in use internally, but will now be enshrined in law.
By Justin Katz
The ways troops are using new technologies to train for today’s threats
Here’s how training for readiness in digitally immersive training environments is enabling multi-domain operations.
In total, the Navy has awarded BlueForge roughly $1.3 billion in work associated with boosting the submarine industrial base.
By Justin Katz
MeshONE-T is designed to operate as a network of data transport nodes that allows for rapid, secure communications between sites across the globe.
By Carley Welch
Feeling lost on defense budget matters after the August legislative recess? Breaking Defense has a primer for you.
By Valerie Insinna
“I don’t have reservations about affordability of CCA, because I think just by their very nature, they want to be much less expensive,” Rep. Rob Wittman told Breaking Defense. “What I want to make sure of is that we don’t try to take a CCA that’s a basic platform and add a bunch of cost to it, because we have this requirement creep.”
By Michael Marrow
“It looks like there’s going to be another continuing resolution that’ll come up next week. … The debate has been, how long should that CR go?” said Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.
By Valerie Insinna
Following developmental woes, Lockheed Martin plans to invest over $350 million in the F-35 program over the next five years, which the company told Breaking Defense will be geared toward “enhancing capabilities and driving efficiency across the F-35 enterprise.”
By Michael Marrow
Three years after the fall of Kabul, the US Navy is helping to fund several training programs recruiting Afghan immigrants to work for the nation’s ailing shipbuilding industry.
By Valerie Insinna
The Magnificent Seven Weapons: ‘Awesome On A Shoestring’
Everyone knows military technology projects take forever and cost billions to produce, right? Just look at the Air Force’s latest fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor. The Raptor’s initial requirement was written in 1981, with the objective of developing an air superiority fighter to counter the Soviet air threat. It was declared operational in December of…
By Dan Ward