By Geoff Fein The USS Freedom (LCS-1) returned to duty Wednesday after making repairs to one of two downed ship service diesel generators (SSDG) during a scheduled refueling stop in Panama, the Navy said. Sometime before March 1, Freedom lost two of its forward generators (Nr 1 and 2). The ship is outfitted with four SSDGs, but is capable of operating on only two, Lt. Cmdr. Chris Servello, a Navy spokesman, told Defense Daily yesterday "USS Freedom can operate normally…
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The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has approved its $1.14 trillion version of the next defense policy bill, adopting “right to repair” reform to provide the military services’ greater ability […]
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House appropriators on Wednesday released their $1.07 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense spending bill, with the legislation reversing Army aviation cuts, restoring funding for the Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetail program […]
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