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Space Adviser. Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will take over the duties of the principal defense space adviser on an “interim” basis, he wrote in a Jan. 17 memo to other defense officials. The move comes in response to the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization act, which calls for ...

The DDG-51 program manager said at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium the week of Jan. 7 that the DDG-51 Alreigh Burke class Flight III Baseline’s detail design work is on track to support the beginning of construction early in 2018.The Flight III model of the destroyer primarily ...

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NRO Launch. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office satellite (NROL-47) lifted off Jan. 12 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch of the classified spacecraft was delayed a day due to a problem with a ground system valve, ULA said ...

DDG-51 Flight III Status Update


The DDG-51 program manager said at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium last week that the DDG-51 Alreigh Burke class Flight III Baseline’s detail design work is on track to support the beginning of construction early this year.The Flight III model of the destroyer primarily aims to ...