Reprogramming Resistance. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, opposes the Pentagon’s proposal to take $416 million from operation and maintenance accounts and use it to beef up missile defense. He says the reprogramming request, which requires ...
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The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics [GD] Bath Iron Works (BIW) a contract to plan and build two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG-51), including the second Flight III destroyer, the Defense Department said in a Thursday announcement.GD was awarded a firm-fixed-price-incentive-firm target ...
Senate Armed Services Committee members were at times frustrated as they questioned the top Navy leaders Tuesday over a series of ship collisions resulting in severe damage and deaths.This was the second hearing this month inquiring into recent naval collisions, with the first being on the House ...
Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer, the new commander of the Seventh Fleet, relieved the commander of Task Force 70 (CTF-70) and commander of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON)-15, the Navy said Monday.Sawyer relieved CTF-70 Commander Rear Adm. Charles Williams and DESRON-15 Commodore Capt. Jeffrey Bennett “due to a ...
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding launched the future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) in its Pascagoula, Miss,. facility on Friday, the Navy said.DDG-119 is being configured in the Flight IIA configuration, which includes an Aegis Combat System ...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $614 million modification to produce 17 Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missiles and other associated work, reducing the overall contract overall value.The Aug. 28 modification directed Raytheon to build the missiles, perform production ...
In testimony before members of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) lastThursday, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official explained that his office found 37 percent of warfare certifications for U.S. cruiser and destroyer crews based in Japan had expired.John Pendleton, the director ...
Members of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Thursday pushed two high-level Navy officials over recent ship collisions and how forward deploying forces in part contributed to recent mishaps in the Seventh Fleet area of operations this year.At a joint hearing of the Seapower and ...
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) said Wednesday it intends to issue a task order for the salvage patching and heavy lift transport of the damaged USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) to a naval facility in Japan.In August, DDG-56, an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer, collided with a ...
Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has formed an independent subject matter expert team to operate a Strategic Readiness Review as one of the responses to recent surface fleet collision incidents., the Navy said last Friday.This review is set to proceed concurrently with, and complementary to, ...