The Pentagon has sent Congress a $600 million reprogramming request for near-term hurricane recovery, but will need supplemental funding to cover $9 billion in damage across multiple fiscal years, according to an internal memo from acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan.
Navy
March 27, 2019
The maintenance availability for the Los Angeles-class attack submarine Boise (SSN-764) is delayed until 2020 due to shipyard backlogs, despite previous plans for the vessel to reach a dry dock this past January.
March 26, 2019
The Navy has "at least" 11 months of margin associated with a key component of its top acquisition program, down from the 13 months of available margin reported in January, according to a senior service official.
March 26, 2019
The Navy has "at least" 11 months of margin associated with a key component of its top acquisition program, down from the 13 months of available margin reported in January, according to a senior service official.
March 26, 2019
The Missile Defense Agency has provided Congress a $1.9 billion wish list to finance 11 projects above and beyond the agency's $9.4 billion fiscal year 2020 budget request, including bolstering spending for a new space sensor to track hypersonic and ballistic missiles, additional THAAD interceptors and additional investments for lasers and new warhead development.
March 26, 2019
The Pentagon is still about 18 months away from measuring contractor cybersecurity as part of the acquisition process, but the Defense Department is moving forward this year with developing the metrics and establishing relationships with third-party auditors.
March 26, 2019
The Navy will delay completing the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford's (CVN-78) post-shakedown availability by three months, citing problems with the Advanced Weapons Elevators and adjustments to the nuclear power plant, a service official announced today during a House subcommittee hearing.
March 26, 2019
U.S. Special Operations Command has sent Congress a nearly $200 million list of unfunded priorities, highlighting the need to counter unmanned aerial systems, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense.
March 26, 2019
The U.S. military, in a major test of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, destroyed an intercontinental ballistic missile target with a pair of Ground-based Interceptors in the first-ever salvo launch of the homeland defense guided-missile fleet, an event likely to bolster confidence in the current fielded system and the exoatmospheric kill vehicle in particular.
March 25, 2019
The U.S. military, in a major test of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, destroyed an intercontinental ballistic missile target with a pair of Ground-based Interceptors in the first-ever salvo launch of the homeland defense guided-missile fleet, an event likely to bolster confidence in the current fielded system and the exoatmospheric kill vehicle in particular.
March 25, 2019
The Navy's fiscal year 2020 budget request pegs the service's upcoming training helicopter program with a total procurement cost of at least $1.1 billion for 109 aircraft, according to budget documents.
March 25, 2019
The Pentagon has sent Congress a $600 million reprogramming request for near-term hurricane recovery, but will need supplemental funding to cover $9 billion in damage across multiple fiscal years, according to an internal memo from acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan.
March 25, 2019
The Pentagon has sent Congress a $4 billion list of unfunded military lab construction priorities that were not approved for the fiscal year 2020 budget submission, but that Pentagon technology chief Mike Griffin would like to see completed anyway, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense.
March 25, 2019
Ship and submarine depot maintenance are at the top of the Navy's $3.2 billion unfunded priorities list with deferred and backlogged maintenance availabilities totaling $814 million.
March 22, 2019
The Navy's new 30-year shipbuilding plan anticipates it will cost $40 billion then-year dollars to sustain the 355-ship fleet the Navy envisions achieving in FY-34.
March 22, 2019
The Navy has delayed its purchase of the last Expeditionary Sea Base vessel to fiscal year 2023 so the service can pursue "higher-priority ship procurements," according to a Navy official.
March 22, 2019
The Navy plans to buy the first future large surface combatant in fiscal year 2025, two years later than the service previously anticipated.
March 22, 2019
The Navy plans to ask Congress for fiscal year 2021 advance procurement money to refuel a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier if lawmakers prevent the service from retiring the vessel early.
March 22, 2019
The Navy is unsure of the way forward to protect aircraft carriers from incoming torpedoes following the cancellation of an $800 million research and development program.
March 21, 2019
The Navy is working with private shipbuilders to prepare industry for a 355-ship fleet, and intends to send Congress an infrastructure investment plan for those efforts with the fiscal year 2021 budget request.
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