The Increment 3 version of the Navy's Broad Aerial Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft is one of the options for the service's currently undefined EPX spy plane capability, BAMS program manager Capt. Bob Dishman told Inside the Navy Sept. 3. 737 words

The prioritization of deployed V-22s in Afghanistan has improved availability rates to the point that it is generally near around 70 percent, but resulting low availability for non-deployed V-22s brings the entire fleet down into the 50th percentile range, according to Col. Greg Masiello, V-22 program manager. 668 words

The Navy will add "government oversight of over 300 personnel" as it begins to take control of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet from contractor HPES, according to David Weddel, the assistant deputy chief of naval operations for information dominance. 499 words

The Navy is pushing back against a Government Accountability Office report issued last week saying the Littoral Combat Ship's anti-submarine warfare package will not add significant capability to the fleet and criticizing the early deployment of LCS-1 and LCS-2. 975 words

A Defense Acquisition Board meeting for the LPD-17 class of amphibious ships, which was planned for Sept. 8, has been rescheduled, though no new date has been set yet, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin. A Navy source said that the program's Gate 6 review, which is meant to examine after a platform's deployment whether it lived up to its promises, did not happen last week as scheduled because it was turned into a "paper review," where officials examined documentation independently. The source added that he believes there is no relation between the Gate 6 review and the DAB rescheduling.99 words

The Navy's information technology requirements, development and testing process should be reviewed to find ways the pace of development can be accelerated, the service's No. 2 IT official told Inside the Navy last week. 419 words

The Office of the Secretary of Defense plans to use the M80 Stiletto, its small, speedy prototype ship commissioned in 2006, as a test bed for new technologies, and there are no plans to use it again for operational missions, a Defense Department official told Inside the Navy last week. 632 words

A 2008 attack against Defense Department classified computer networks helped create U.S. CYBERCOM, according to the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance David Weddel, whose office handles both IT and intelligence matters for the Navy. The counter attack, dubbed Operation Buckshot Yankee, raised "the implications of network security to the highest levels," Weddel said in a Sept 1. interview with Inside the Navy. 252 words

Contractors Lockheed Martin and ATK have delivered three prototypes each of what the Office of the Secretary of Defense says will be the helicopter missile warning systems of the future, according to Capt. Paul Overstreet, program manager for advanced tactical aircraft protection systems. 461 words

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is hoping to carry the concept of the Common Submarine Radio Room installed on guided missile, ballistic missile and attack submarines over to the surface ship fleet, according to a broad agency announcement. 596 words

The Navy recently completed a major operational evaluation for the Portable Undersea Training Range -- an up to 100-square-mile range that can be picked up and moved anywhere the fleet needs it -- and the service may buy two or three more in the coming years, the program manager said last week. 392 words

The Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren is asking industry for information about towing sensor arrays via helicopter. 272 words

Naval Air Systems Command is contemplating allocating funding in fiscal year 2011 for aircraft propulsion and power-related technology that monitors engine health, improves power availability, expands the options for alternative fuels and shrinks its aircraft's environmental footprint. 534 words

The Navy is hoping to find a system that is better at tracking moving targets in complex or "cluttered" environments than the service's existing laser-targeting systems. 399 words

The first battalion to use the Infantry Automatic Rifle will receive it the near the end of this year and deploy with them in mid-2011, according to Marine Corps officials. 392 words

A Raytheon-Boeing team competing for the Joint Air to Ground Missile believes Raytheon's recent win in the Small Diameter Bomb II could pay dividends for the Pentagon if the team is selected to build JAGM.517 words

The Defense Department's broad interpretation of legal provisions that free DOD and other entities from liability for pollution solely caused by an "act of war" is sparking a conflict with the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal land management agencies at contaminated sites on two Alaskan islands as well as a dispute over language in a draft revised DOD cleanup manual, according to informed sources.1048 words

The Pentagon's procurement shop has officially designated numerous acquisition posts to be "key leadership positions" that must be filled by military officials of a certain rank.389 words

The Pentagon's procurement directorate is beginning its next annual review of its acquisition of services policy and oversight.185 words

Top brass at the Pentagon are reviewing a proposed new process for promptly addressing combatant commanders' requests for key counterintelligence and human intelligence capabilities, according to military officials.454 words

Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has commissioned a new study of the Defense Department's basic research program, a key element of the military's science and technology portfolio.554 words

The Marine Corps' new force structure review will develop options for the service's component of U.S. Special Operations Command, according to the charter for the study.267 words

Defense Secretary Robert Gates' push for efficiencies has prompted the Navy to launch a new study of its prepositioning program, according to a directive from Navy Under Secretary Robert Work.910 words