http://www.ddn.com Defense Daily en-us 2008 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:32:43 EDT By Emelie Rutherford As the Defense Department assesses an urgent request from theater for smaller mine-proof vehicles, the Marine Corps is planning to place the final order next month for the current Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle effort... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3716.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Navy has shifted course and now wants to buy a DDG-1000 in fiscal year 2009, though the service hopes to stop purchasing the destroyer after that third ship and continue with the controversial plan it unveiled last month to restart... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3718.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein While the nation looks for ways to cope with oil prices far above last year's prices, the Navy has been quietly developing a number of alternative energy sources as the service deals with fuel costs of $170 a barrel. Among the projects underway... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3658.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT BAE Systems said it has received additional orders from the Defense Department of Defense for 43 M777 lightweight towed howitzers, worth a total of $85.6 million, not including DoD-supplied components. The M777 is the world's first artillery system to... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3650.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein While Congress debates extending tax credits for companies investing in alternative energies and presidential hopefuls talk of a future free of dependence on foreign oil, the Navy has been quietly investing in a number of projects that have... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3653.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford As the Navy prepares to launch a project aimed at ultimately developing a three-megawatt free-electron laser (FEL) for ship defense, an official said the service will assess its progress mid-way through to determine the feasibility... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3655.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The new head of the command that develops Marine Corps warfighting capabilities ticked off a technology wish-list yesterday, calling for everything from lighter armored vehicles and more-advanced drone aircraft to improved methods of... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3639.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Exercise Fuerzas Aliades PANAMAX 2008 involves military and civilian forces from 20 nations to increase multinational interoperability and support training requirements to ensure rapid crisis response and provide threat protection to the strategically vital... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3642.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein After several years of cost increases, delays, efforts to renegotiate contracts, and cancellation of two ships, the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program appears to be heading in the right direction as the first ship of the new class... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3643.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Navy researchers want industry to help them refine solicitations for 14 forthcoming enabling-capability projects (ECs) with more than $380 million in recently secured funding. Joseph Lawrence, the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) director... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3630.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Friday denied Lockheed Martin's [LMT] protest of a $1.6 billion Navy contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aerial system (UAS). The GAO ruling... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3622.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Alliant Techsystems [ATK], the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force this month successfully completed another missile firing of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, the company said yesterday... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3593.html Fri, 8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein While it seems much of the focus on the Navy these days is on the volatility in shipbuilding, the Navy is delivering between six and seven ships a year, has one of two new ships in tests and has a number of new design ships either in... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3595.html Fri, 8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein Testing on the giant motor generator that will be used to power the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on the Navy's next-generation carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, should wrap-up next month at General Atomics' Tupelo, Miss., facility... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3596.html Fri, 8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Alliant Techsystems [ATK] yesterday posted strong earnings and sales to open its new fiscal year, powered by record results in its ammunition business that more than offset poor earnings in its space business, which suffered a $15 million... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3598.html Fri, 8 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--The Navy and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) are still working out how the service and the company will proceed forward following a report on interior welding issues first discovered last year on the USS New... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3569.html Wed, 6 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire United States shipbuilder Manitowac Marine Group (MMG) for $120 million, expanding the company's naval business overseas. Lockheed Martin [LMT], which is... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3571.html Wed, 6 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Although contract award for construction of Block III of the Virginia class submarines is not expected until the end of the year, both General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat and Northrop Grumman [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) have... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3572.html Wed, 6 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein As the Navy and its industry partners prepare to begin building two Virginia-class submarines a year, Northrop Grumman's [NOC] Newport News (NGNN) facility is instituting a number of efforts to lower the cost and trim the schedule in how it... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3534.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Delivery of CVN-77, the George H.W. Bush, will be approximately one month late, but Northrop Grumman [NOC] will have the ship ready for the January commissioning, according to a company official. The last of the Nimitz-class... http://www.ddn.com/sectors/navy_usmc/3507.html Mon, 4 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT