http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:27:24 EDT By Geoff Fein Language in the Senate Armed Services Committee's (SASC) authorization report for fiscal year 2010 would prohibit the Navy from funding construction of any surface combatants after 2011 unless the service conducts analysis and certain tasks at... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7432.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Suppliers and contractors in the United States are capable of meeting the nation's needs for solid rocket motors (SRM) but challenges remain, including the need for increased public and private investment and waning research, development... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7433.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Senate debate on whether to keep funding in the Pentagon policy bill for aircraft efforts opposed by the Obama administration could start as soon as this week. While the multi-day debate of the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7423.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein The Pentagon is looking to write into the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) language to protect defense networks, according to a top Navy official. The defense industrial base effort will define in both the DFAR and the Federal... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7426.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered the first production Target Sight System, designed to improve the Marine Corps AH-1Z Cobra helicopter's ability to identify, track and engage targets at standoff ranges, a company official said. Lockheed Martin... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7377.html Mon, 6 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein The Director of Naval Intelligence (N2) has been tasked with reorganizing the Chief of Naval Operations' (CNO) staff to consolidate N2 and the Deputy CNO Communizations Networks (N6) into a single entity. Additionally, under the reorganization... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7363.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford An official overseeing the purchase of new all-terrain mine-resistant trucks said yesterday he is "pretty confident" Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] will build all 5,244 planned vehicles over the next nine months without enlisting... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7367.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] beat four competitors for the first order for new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) designed for Afghanistan's terrain, though the Pentagon still plans to buy thousands more. The Oshkosh... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7357.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The outgoing head of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) emphasized during a visit this week to Washington his desire for ample numbers of submarines and surface ships along with more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7358.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is expected to order as soon as today thousands of a new off-road variety of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) for troops in Afghanistan. Congressional, military, and industry sources said they expect just... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7340.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein As personnel at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are finding that even in the early introduction of Open Architecture (OA) into the Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) program, they are realizing cost savings, a program official said... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7311.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is trying to kill a relatively new and controversial requirement that future Navy surface combatants must be nuclear powered. Two House lawmakers who pushed for the nuclear mandate, brought about... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7313.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN] have each been... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7315.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The House and a Senate panel defied the White House yesterday and authorized adding money to the Pentagon's policy bill for F-22 fighter jets and a second engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Yet the future of the two... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7303.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein The Navy's effort to develop a carrier capable combat drone is providing the service an opportunity to explore the art of the possible, literally building the Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) with an eye toward open architecture (OA). "One... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7307.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein While Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the U.S. Navy continue to modernize the Aegis combat systems on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and the ballistic missile defense capability of other surface combatants, the company is seeking international... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7293.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein As the Navy pursues development of new aircraft launch and recovery systems for its next generation of carriers, the service is also developing a new information management system to keep track of aircraft on the flight deck, according to a... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7287.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The head of a House oversight committee called yesterday for halting production of the V-22 Osprey after government auditors highlighted shortcomings with the Marine Corps' tilt-rotor aircraft including availability and reliability... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7289.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein While General Atomics and the Navy continue to work to prove the ability to catapult aircraft from a carrier using electricity instead of steam, the company is also working to improve how aircraft land at sea, a service official said. And unlike... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7253.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) agreed to give the Navy relief on a cost ceiling for littoral vessels, but made last-minute changes last week to the new price guidelines, saying they won't kick in until the service ensures... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/navy_usmc/7217.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT