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Outsourcing Navy shipbuilding weakens the United States

March 22, 2024

The Pentagon’s first-ever industrial base strategy is rightly looking to address critical areas of America’s supply chain resilience, workforce readiness, flexible acquisition and economic deterrence.But rather than looking to invest in American shipbuilding and repair capacity, our military leaders are actively exploring outsourcing the U.S. maritime-industrial base, weakening our nation and…

Defense Innovation Unit would get major funding boost in spending bill

March 22, 2024

As the Defense Innovation Unit takes on a more central role in the Pentagon’s innovation ecosystem, Congress is proposing a nearly $800 million boost to the organization’s funding in fiscal 2024. House and Senate appropriators released a compromise version of the fiscal…

F-35 delivery delays frustrate European air force upgrade plans

March 22, 2024

PARIS — Delivery disruptions for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are creating a headache for European buyers, as some countries face a potential capacity gap and delays in training pilots and maintenance engineers. Denmark is exploring how to deal with a slipping delivery…

First round of Replicator to heavily feature Army systems, Bush says

March 21, 2024

The U.S. Army is poised to be the largest player in the first round of Replicator projects, according to the service’s top acquisition official. Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, told an audience at the Ronald Reagan Institute’s National Security Innovation Base Summit in Washington that the Pentagon selected a system the service proposed for…

Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan relies on more money, industry capacity

March 21, 2024

The U.S. Navy sets a fleet goal of 381 ships, up from 373, in a new long-range shipbuilding plan. The service expects to reach this goal by 2042 if it can grow both its shipbuilding budget and the industrial base’s capacity, it says in the document. The Navy had previously…

US Air Force tests third-stage rocket motor for next nuclear missile

March 21, 2024

The U.S. Air Force and two main contractors on the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program on Saturday tested the solid-rocket motor that will power the nuclear weapon’s third stage. The test, which also involved Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne…

US Air Force conducts final test of Lockheed’s hypersonic missile

March 20, 2024

The U.S. Air Force on Sunday carried out what is expected to be the final test of the hypersonic AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon. The service did not say whether the test was successful. In a statement to Defense News, an Air Force spokesperson said a B-52H Stratofortress carried out the test of the fully operational ARRW prototype, referred to as an all-up round test, after taking off…

Project Overmatch budget details too sensitive to share, Navy says

March 20, 2024

The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for Project Overmatch, its effort to digitally link people, ships and sensors over vast distances, is too sensitive to make public, according to the service. Asked for potential spending details, a Naval Information Warfare…

Britain finalizes deal to buy 14 Chinook helicopters

March 15, 2024

LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary has committed to a deal to acquire a new fleet of Boeing-built extended-range Chinook helicopters. Fourteen CH-47-ER Chinooks, destined principally for use by British special forces, will be delivered to the Royal Air Force under the…

CQ Brown visits Lockheed plant with lawmakers to press Ukraine case

March 15, 2024

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown visited U.S. weapon factories in Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday as the Pentagon frames the $95 billion aid package hanging in the balance on Capitol Hill as not only vital to Ukraine’s survival but also critical to the U.S. economy. Brown visited Lockheed Martin’s Camden, Arkansas, weapon facility and the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in McAlester…