The House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces markup of its portion of the FY ’19 defense authorization bill focused on SM-3 IB multiyear procurement, requiring the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to begin a program to develop boost phase intercept capabilities and ...
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The House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness addressed several issues raised by reviews of Navy destroyer collisions in the Pacific last summer in its mark of the FY ’19 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).The mark would require the Secretary of the Navy to limit the forward ...
Defense Secretary James Mattis supports further increases to the Pentagon’s shipbuilding budget because the military is planning to adopt a maritime-based strategy to defend the United States homeland, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 26.“I believe we’re moving toward a ...
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Tuesday posted strong financial results in its first quarter buoyed by operating performance, a lower tax rate and a pension tailwind, and the company raised the outlook for its top and bottom lines in 2018.Net income soared 47 percent to $1.2 billion, $4.02 earnings per ...
The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told Congress the week of April 8 that he sees F-35 aircraft helping aid missile defense activities in the six to seven-year timeframe, albeit mostly for sensor tracking.Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Lt. Gen. ...
The Navy formally established the Commander, Naval Surface Group Western Pacific (CNSG WP) in Japan to oversee surface ship maintenance and certification of forward deployed naval forces in Japan (FDNF-J), the service said on Tuesday.CNSG WP succeeds the interim Detachment, Naval Surface Group ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Textron’s [TXT] Maritime and Land Systems’ Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) hovercraft started its first at-sea on-water testing, company officials told Defense Daily during the annual Sea Air Space Expo last week.The SSC is the next-generation Landing Craft Air Cushion ...
The director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told Congress last week that he sees F-35 aircraft helping aid missile defense activities in the six to seven-year timeframe, albeit mostly for sensor tracking.Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Lt. Gen. Samuel ...
F-35 Milestone. The F-35 Lightning II program has wrapped up developmental flight tests for its system development and demonstration phase, according to the Defense Department’s joint program office and prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The tests, which involved more than 17,000 flight hours over ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Without the V-22 Osprey to deliver spare engines, nations buying the naval version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be able to deploy them on carriers.No other carrier-based aircraft can heft the Pratt & Whitney [UTX] F135 engine, according to Marine Col. ...