Hondo Geurts Joining Silicon Valley Defense Group
Former Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts left government in August after Carlos Del Toro was confirmed as Navy secretary.
Hondo Geurts To Exit Pentagon
Geurts will exit "later this month," he announced.
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Esper’s New Push For Allies; Gilday Unveils ‘Tech Bridge’ To Royal Navy
The new plan will focus on four areas, “underwater, our carrier programs, our Marines -- so working with the US Marine Corps and their drive for distributed warfare -- and linking that with what we want to do with our Royal Marines, and the future commando force,” First Sea Lord Adm. Tony Radakin says.
COVID-19: Lord Urges Defense Workers To Stay On The Job; Cites White House
The critical infrastructure rules come from a presidential policy directive signed by President Barack Obama in 2013, kept in place by the Trump administration. “That helps,” a defense industry source said, “because there’s no partisan stink on it.”
Navy OKs Biggest Ever Deal: $22B for 9 Virginia Subs
The Navy is pushing full-speed ahead, and its acquisition chief said the service is prepared to make other programs pay to keep on track.
Marines Eye Unmanned Systems To Keep F-35s Flying From Remote Bases
The Navy and Marine Corps are trying to buy new autonomous and unmanned systems more quickly for expeditionary ops, but as one general warned, “if I can’t sustain it, I’m hosed.”
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AI is transforming pilot training and the aircraft they fly
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Navy Walks Thinning Line On Sub Programs
Virginia class subs are suffering delivery delays of up to seven months, potentially placing the Columbia -- slated to be the backbone of the nation’s nuclear triad -- at risk.
F-35C Readiness Rises, Navy Fighter Shortfall Fades
While the Air Force bet the farm on F-35, the Navy put its airpower eggs in multiple baskets, from legacy fighters to new drones.
GAO: Navy “Overly Optimistic” On Columbia Sub Costs
The Navy's most expensive shipbuilding program and the key to the country's nuclear triad is under increasing pressure to keep to its tight schedule, and hit its budget.
Pacific Commander Wants Subs The Navy Just Doesn’t Have
The Navy is losing submarines just when commanders say they need more, more, more.
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Powering the future: Securing America with domestically made microelectronics
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
Let’s Get Digital: Hondo Geurts Wants Ships For Less $$
SAN DIEGO: Newport News Shipbuilding is reaping “huge savings” on the next Ford-class carrier, the Kennedy, through “creative” use of digital models instead of paper plans, the new head of Navy acquisition told reporters today. It’s an approach that can increase efficiency and reduce costs on all big Navy programs, said assistant secretary James “Hondo” […]
Navy Copes With Budget Chaos, But It’s Ugly: CNO Richardson
HERITAGE FOUNDATION: The Navy’s has been forced to resort to awkward, inefficient, even dysfunctional expedients to cope with Congress’s chronic inability to pass a proper spending bill on time, the Chief of Naval Operations said here this morning. “We do need stable funding, right, but the system has adapted….I wouldn’t say in completely healthy ways, […]
Navy Says It Can Buy Frigate For Under $800M: Acquisition Reform Testbed
SURFACE NAVY ASSOCIATION: The Navy’s frigate program is pioneering new procurement processes to get ships faster and cheaper. For the frigate, that means the cost should come in below the current target of $800 million, the program executive officer for small ships said here. (The maximum allowable cost per ship is $950 million). For the […]
Lord Announces ‘Deep Dive’ F-35 Cost Review; FMS Changes
CAPITOL HILL: The Pentagon, clearly looking ahead to bolster the defense industrial base, is taking steps to ease and speed Foreign Military Sales, and it has a pilot program underway to reduce the time it takes to execute program acquisition. But let’s be clear: this is not an acquisition reform story; it’s an acquisition improvement […]