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WEB1 day ago · US Marine Corps Orders L3Harris Multi-Channel Radios Under 10-Year IDIQ - From L3Harris, Aug 28, 2024 ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2024 — L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received a new order from the U.S. Marine Corps for multi-channel handheld and vehicular radio systems worth more than $120 million, bringing program orders to date above ...
Coast Guard Expedites ScanEagle ISR Services for National
WEBJan 17, 2020 · Two years ago, the Coast Guard awarded Insitu a contract to operate the ScanEagle on board all NSCs. “Over the past year and a half, we have begun integration on board all national security cutters,” said Ron Tremain, vice president of Insitu Defense, a Boeing company, who spoke to Seapower on Jan. 15 at the Surface Navy Association’s ...
Signature Reduction Needed by SEALs, Marine Raiders, Leaders Say
WEBMay 18, 2020 · Green said that his command has a resource strategy with lines of effort to strengthen the SEALs and special boat units as they focus on sustaining a competitive advantage in the maritime domain: “signature reduction, lethality and survivability of our maritime combatant craft” as well as “developing and expanding our undersea capability ...
Navy’s Second Ford CVN to Join the U.S. Pacific Fleet
WEBNov 28, 2023 · MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 11, 2023) The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 11, 2023. The second Ford-class CVN, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), …
Pentagon Assessment: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy
WEBSep 1, 2020 · A Chinese Type 052C destroyer, the Changchun, in Malaysia in 2017. ARLINGTON, Va. — The People’s Republic of China, increasing its two-decade military buildup, now has the world’s largest navy, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s latest annual assessment of China’s military capabilities. The …
U.S. Coast Guard, Russian Border Guard Patrolled Maritime
WEBJan 28, 2021 · JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star crew and a Russian aircraft crew patrolled the Bering Sea maritime boundary line between Russia and the United States in mid-January, the Coast Guard 17th District said in a Jan. 27 release. Following routine coordinated communications between the Russian Border Guard Directorate for the ...
Philippine Navy Retires Four Ships as it Transitions to ... - Seapower
WEBMar 23, 2021 · The Republic of the Philippines’ navy is making a pivot from older legacy ships and craft to newer and more capable surface combatants. On March 1, 2021, the RPN decommissioned four of its oldest ships in a ceremony at the Heracleo Alano Naval Base in Sangley Point, Cavite City on the island of …
Triton Deploys at Last: The Navy Takes Its New UAV to the …
WEBApr 29, 2020 · The Navy is working on deploying the Triton with IFC 4, which gives the UAV a signals intelligence capability and will put it on the path to replace the Navy’s EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft. IFC 4, also called the multi-int (multi-intelligence) capability, is planned for fiscal 2022. Multi-int capability deployed in four Tritons at ...
Marine Corps to Increase KC-130J Force in Pacific to Enhance
WEBMay 4, 2022 · ARLINGTON, Va. — The Marine Corps plans to activate another KC-130J Super Hercules tanker/transport squadron as part of its aim to provide increased mobility of Marine Corps forces in the Pacific area of responsibility in support of Force Design 2030. ...
Navy Begins Retirement of Cyclone-Class Patrol Ships Without
WEBFeb 19, 2021 · ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy held ceremonies this week to mark the decommissioning of three Cyclone-class coastal patrol ships this week, beginning the retirement of the class which has no direct replacement. The three decommissioning ceremonies held over three days — Feb. 16, 17, and 18 — marked the imminent retirement of the Cyclone-class ...