AUSTIN, Texas – The Navy is challenging its program directors to find ways of opening legacy systems to new capabilities, but the process of moving to modular, open systems architectures retroactively is a slow and difficult process, according to a senior service scientist.“We’re trying to go ...
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Global partnerships led by U.S. and overseas private sector partners will be critical to addressing cyber threats aimed at exploiting known vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure networks, according to U.S. and international government officials speaking at a cyber conference on Wednesday ...
A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report comparing various future fleet size costs said moving to a 355-ship Navy in 10-20 years is doable but will cost hundreds of billions more over 30 years.The Navy currently operates 280 ships.The CBO report looked at four options: getting to 355 ships ...
Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently conducted successful tactical ballistic missile interception tests for two of its PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) interceptors, the company said March 6.The latest tests were the 10th and 11th successful intercepts in the last six years conducted under the Army� ...
F-35 vs. A-10. A congressionally mandated comparison test of the Air Force’s F-35A and A-10 aircraft will be conducted during the F-35’s initial operational test and evaluation, which is slated to run from September to May, a service spokesman says. The comparison test, which is required by the ...
The State Department has approved a possible $45 million deal with Japan for conversion kits to upgrade its MK 15 Phalanx Close-in Weapon Systems (CIWS) from Block IB Baseline 1 to Block IB Baseline 2.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress on March 5 of the foreign ...
Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently conducted successful tactical ballistic missile interception tests for two of its PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) interceptors, the company said Tuesday.The latest tests were the 10th and 11th successful intercepts in the last six years conducted under the Army� ...
Analogic Planning Airport Demos of ConneCT ScannerAnalogic [ALOG] says it will be demonstrating its ConneCT computed tomography-based checkpoint scanner at four airports in four different regions of the world by this July. The company says a demonstration is already underway in Japan and another ...
In a first for the short-takeoff vertical-landing capable aircraft, several Marine Corps F-35Bs landed on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) for deployment aboard the Navy big-deck amphibious assault ship.The detachment of F-35s, assigned to Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121), alit on the Wasp’s deck March ...
The Navy requested a relatively modest $1.5 billion in spending in its FY ’19 unfunded priorities list, with no additional aircraft or ships requested.The annual list sent to Congress in late February with projects not funded under the formal budget request process is much smaller than the $5.3 ...