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National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Operations With Navy's New Afloat Network Get Underway The Navy intends to streamline the number of networks and modernizing hardware and software through the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program, or CANES.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller |
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman to Provide Computers for Navy CANES Shipboard Networking Program Northrop Grumman Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will provide the U.S. Navy with shipboard computers for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program, under terms of contracts awarded in March.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies.  |
National Defense November 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Command Expands Commercial IT Acquisitions The Pentagon has set out to replace outdated military information systems with commercial products that offer far better performance at lower cost.  |
National Defense June 2015 Lloyd McCoy |
Navy IT Priorities Stress Security, Efficiency With the Navy projecting flat spending over the next few years, it will be looking to information technology to help meet its goals.  |
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy on the verge of major shipboard electronics breakthroughs Open-architecture and COTS technologies are critical for advances in ship propulsion, navigation and guidance, weapons control, ballistic missile defense, modular mission packages, and related systems for the nation's maritime defense.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh |
The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Edward J. Walsh |
Shipboard Electronics Tune up for Future Conflicts Navy pushes smart engineering and open-systems architectures for the shipboard electronics and electro-optics aboard the nation's combat fleet.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Ed Walsh |
Navy looks to technology to balance budget cuts Transformational plans for the seagoing service call for vast levels of wired and wireless networking of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, communications systems, RF antennas, and more, to offset planned cutbacks in new platform development.  |
National Defense September 2012 Dan Parsons |
Budget Crunch Could Jeopardize New Carrier Procurement With uncertain economic waters ahead, there may be a growing reticence within the Defense Department to commit to buying future aircraft carriers, its single largest procurement item.  |
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames |
Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis.  |
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Ship Construction Costs Endanger Navy's Fleet Expansion With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet.  |
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy to Consider New Ways to Shuttle Passengers, Supplies to Aircraft Carriers The Navy will decide over the next two years how it will modernize its fleet of 35 cargo planes that move passengers and supplies from bases on land to big-deck aircraft carriers at sea.  |
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Shipyards Speed Up Submarine Production Amid Concerns About Navy's Future Budgets Beginning next year, the Navy plans to double the production rate to two submarines per year for $2.5 billion apiece.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
Key Tactical Data Link Systems Clear Operational Testing U.S. Navy experts are moving ahead with an upgrade to the Tactical Data Link (TDL) system onboard Navy ships after testing the data link earlier this year. The TDL will transfer information quickly and securely among military assets.  |
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control.  |
National Defense May 2005 Sandra Erwin |
Shipbuilding Strategy Makes Sure Bet on Uncertain Future War-strained Pentagon budgets, rising shipbuilding costs and inconsistent messages by the Navy's leadership are conspiring to bring about what could be a dramatic downsizing in the Navy.  |
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.  |
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Defense Department to Wring Savings From Its Info-Tech Buys Although the Defense Department continues to pour funding into information technology initiatives, contractors may find the pool of money shrinking over the next five years.  |
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean |
Littoral Combat Ship Could Slip Behind Schedule as Price Tag Nears $500 Million In the midst of a contentious debate about the Navy's embattled littoral combat ship program, the service's coveted warship has come under fire by its own supporters on Capitol Hill.  |
National Defense June 2014 Lloyd McCoy |
Defense IT Spending on Downslope With the defense budget under growing pressure, the Pentagon's chief information officer and budget leaders are looking at information technology as a way to do more with less.  |
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin |
Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.  |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.  |
National Defense June 2005 Robert H. Williams |
Navy's New Carrier: An Electrifying Ride Construction of the Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier, the CVN-21, could begin as early as this year, even though the ship's design continues to evolve.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Technology Refresh Key for Maintaining Submarine Fleet U.S. Navy officials say that embracing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and shortening the technology refresh time for electronic payloads is crucial to maintaining the superiority of the fleet.  |
National Defense August 2014 Dan Parsons |
Littoral Combat Ship Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced The Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, multi-billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive surface combatant.  |
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Ships' Cost Could Sink Plans For Floating Military Bases The success of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forward-looking concept of deploying bases at sea relies heavily on the development of a new class of cargo ships.  |
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Navy Downsizing Could Weaken Marine Corps Expeditionary Posture As the U.S. Navy's investments and planning point towards a shrinking fleet, it remains unclear how the downsizing will affect the Marine Corps and its ability to carry out expeditionary warfare missions.  |
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Peter Alpern |
Visualize This Northrop Grumman completes a 3-D product model for a next-generation aircraft carrier.  |
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
For the First Time, Navy Will Launch Weapons From Surveillance Drones The Navy will request funds in fiscal year 2010 to begin outfitting its new surveillance drone with kinetic weapons.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
LynuxWorks Provides RTOS for Shipboard Self-Defense System Engineers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems have built the next-generation combat system on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS)  |
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Technology Spending Will Target Current and Future Navy Fleet The Navy should direct its future science, research and technology spending to both improving the current fleet and designing next-generation systems, officials say.  |
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Confusion Surrounds Navy's Carrier-Based Drone The Navy in 2010 first released a request for information for the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, or UCLASS, but officials took years debating whether it wanted a revolutionary technology or something less risky.  |
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Seeks More Control of its Expansive Computer Network Some 700,000 sailors, marines and civilians spread out across the United States, Japan and Puerto Rico rely on the Navy's intranet every day.  |
National Defense January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Bases at Sea: No Longer Unthinkable Staging a military campaign the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom entirely from ships at sea---with no access to land bases---would seem inconceivable to most defense planners. Nonetheless, the notion is gaining momentum at the Pentagon.  |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Fight Begins Over Navy's Armed Drone Program After years of delays, the Navy plans this summer to release a request for proposals for the preliminary design phase for its unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, called UCLASS. The final RFP is set to be issued in early spring 2014.  |
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Ship Numbers for Asia-Pacific Shift Don't Add Up The Defense Department's strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region has gone hand in hand with a budget crunch, which in turn may test the Navy's ability to maintain a sufficient number of ships to carry out a global mission, analysts said.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
U.S. Navy Officials Announce Milestones During Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition U.S. Navy officials revealed several firsts at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, including the acceptance and deployment of two new minesweeping warships and the debut of a research-and-development center.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 |
In Brief BAE Systems protects U.S. Army and Navy helicopters... Northrop Grumman to expand Mississippi UAV facility ... Thales forms alliance partnership with Wind River... Lockheed Martin delivers first Atlas Five Booster to west coast launch site... DC-DC device market continues to grow... etc.  |
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean |
In the Navy's Forecast, a Shrinking Attack Submarine Fleet The Navy faces a 23-year period when the number of attack submarines in the fleet falls below the desired 48 ships.  |
National Defense March 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Middle East Turmoil Disrupts Navy's Ship Maintenance Plan Despite the fact that the Navy has come up with new maintenance plans, actors like the Islamic State -- also known as ISIL or ISIS -- may compromise its ability to get ships repaired on schedule.  |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Rich Smith |
DDG Me, ASAP It's full-speed ahead for General Dynamics' new ship contracts.  |
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Marine Corps Makes Strong Pitch for `Sea Bases' Senior Marine Corps officials are asking Navy leaders to commit to a plan to deploy floating military bases within the next decade.  |
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean |
More Amphibious Ships Are Needed, Marines Contend Marine Corps leaders have stepped up pressure on the Navy to increase the size of the amphibious vessel fleet.  |
National Defense May 2008 Grace Jean |
New Ships are Breaking The Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones The ballooning costs of new ships are forcing the Navy to extend the service life of dozens of surface combatants that typically would have been decommissioned.  |
National Defense June 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Challenges Loom Large in the 2020s Builders of U.S. Navy ships are attempting to rein in costs that have doubled over the last 20 years.  |
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Navy Rethinks How It Maintains Surface Combatants Facing readiness problems in surface combatants, the Navy is redoubling its efforts to improve fleet maintenance.  |