The Defense Department's plan to buy two multibillion-dollar nuclear attack submarines annually in the coming years appears to be in jeopardy as the Pentagon prepares to unveil its fiscal year 2013 budget request, according to industry sources.
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The Pentagon's decision last year to put the Marine Corps' Joint Strike Fighter variant on probation created a false impression that the F-35B faced impending doom, a perception that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta sought to fix last week by ending the trial period, according to Frank Kendall, the department's acting procurement chief.
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The Pentagon's decision to end the probation that has loomed over the Marine Corps' F-35B Joint Strike Fighter will not necessarily help the U.S. government persuade more countries to join Spain and Italy in buying the aircraft's short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variant, according to a senior Pentagon official and an industry analyst.
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The Defense Department could need to conduct a major restructuring of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program to meet deficit-reduction targets mandated by Congress, a Navy contract notice warns.
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The fixes
made to the Marine Corps' short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing variant of the
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter actually improved the weight margin on the aircraft
by 270 pounds, despite concerns by the Pentagon's acquisition chief last year
that it would add to the aircraft's weight, a Lockheed Martin official told
reporters Jan. 20.722 words
The Pentagon
projects the Joint Strike Fighter program will avoid $1.1 billion in previously
estimated production and sustainment costs as a result of investments made by
the Navy and Air Force in technologies designed to improve the manufacturing of
a handful of components, according to the Navy three-star admiral overseeing
the F-35 program.429 words
Army Chief of
Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno said Wednesday that the Air Force's C-27J cargo
aircraft program is likely to be killed, thwarting the Army's plan to use the
aircraft to fill its direct support capability needs.560 words
Army Chief of
Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno this week laid out the Army's top modernization
priorities and sought to define the service's new role in light of the
Pentagon's fresh focus on the Asia-Pacific region, announcing the creation of a
trilateral partnership between his office and the ministers of defense from
Japan and South Korea.864 words
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert has launched a series of classified discussions, including secret-level meetings this week, to update the 2007 maritime strategy signed by the chiefs of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, according to sources and documents.
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Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin
Dempsey are scheduled to brief the media today at 2 p.m. EST on the Pentagon's
major budget decisions for fiscal year 2013. The budget plans stem from the
strategic guidance document released earlier this month by the department.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Adm. James Winnefeld are also slated to provide additional comments
and take questions.81 words
In a stunning
reversal of fortune for the competitive humvee recapitalization effort,
Pentagon officials plan to cancel the Medium Expanded Capacity Vehicle and
shift the money saved to pay Navy and Air Force bills, Inside the Army
has learned.553 words
The Army will
request $300 million in fiscal year 2013 to pay for depot work to recapitalize
10,000 up-armored humvees -- a move that effectively pivots the service away
from plans for competitive recapitalization of the vehicle, InsideDefense.com
has learned.417 words
The Defense
Acquisition Board is slated toward the end of February to consider approving
the start of engineering and manufacturing development for the Navy's
Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) program.177 words
Senior
Pentagon officials met Tuesday afternoon to discuss details on how to achieve a
key audit-readiness milestone Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently
accelerated.1382 words
To increase
the efficiency of the Pentagon's information technology enterprise, the defense
secretary must take a clear lead on the modernization effort and the
organization must establish a strategy with specific milestones, deadlines and
metrics, according to new recommendations from an influential advisory board.999 words
A Defense
Business Board task group intends to present recommendations this spring on how
to re-engineer the Pentagon's requirements and acquisition process, the head of
the group told the board during a Jan. 19 meeting.587 words
The
Pentagon's new Joint Operational Access Concept will serve as a guide for the
services when developing capabilities, Lt. Gen. George Flynn, the Joint Staff
director of joint force development, told reporters last week.746 words
The Defense
Information Systems Agency should develop and field an interim version of a
command and control system that had its fielding scrapped and was found to be
operationally suitable but not operationally effective, according to the
Pentagon's operational testing chief.1038 words
Boeing has
finalized plans for configuring the KC-46A tanker aircraft, a milestone that
allows the Air Force to move ahead with plans for a preliminary design review
of the new aircraft in March.496 words
A Republican
House member wants the Obama administration to provide Congress with a risk
assessment associated with the Pentagon's new Strategic Defense Guidance,
laying out explicit areas of planning and investment due to be dialed back as
the military reduces its earlier spending plans by nearly $500 billion over the
next decade.753 words
The Defense
Department is kicking off the first batch of fiscal year 2012 security
assistance programs drawn up with the State Department to train and equip
foreign forces, funding eight efforts to bolster the capabilities of 12
European nations preparing to deploy personnel to Afghanistan to operate
alongside U.S. troops, according to a Pentagon spokesman.524 words
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