Before it won a contract to build the Navy’s new hovercraft, Textron poured $45 million worth of manufacturing robots and other upgrades into its Louisiana shipyard. “We spent our own funds in order to ensure we put ourselves in a position to win,” said Bill Kisiah, vice president of Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems.
It’s not the highest-profile office within the Pentagon but it has outsized influence on the nearly 3 million troops who serve. It’s the Office of Personnel and Readiness, or P&R, which oversees everything from pay and compensation to housing, healthcare, education and military supermarkets.
A new study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) tries to sketch out the future of naval warfare and how it is impacted by the growing dissemination of precision-guided weapons.
A future fighter aircraft is likely to need more range and payload than speed and agility as countries like Russia, China and Iran invest in long-range air defenses that can keep high-value support assets including aerial refueling tankers up to 1,000 nautical miles away from their military installations, but stealth remains critical despite advances in radar technology, according to a new Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments study.
On the surface, Special Operations Command is holding its own in a time of fiscal austerity.As far as what is requested at the beginning of the budget cycle and what is eventually enacted, it normally receives what it asks for along with a little bit more.
The U.S. Navy will for the first time deploy Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) from Virginia-class attack submarines by the end of this year reports military.com.
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