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When Pentagon leadership discusses the rising threat of China, are they putting military dollars where their mouths are? For answers, Federal Drive turned to Govini Senior Vice President Jim Mitre.
The U.S. Navy says a sailor has been charged with starting a fire last year that destroyed a warship docked off San Diego
The Navy and Air Force want to shed existing weapons systems to free up funds for great power competition. Many of those systems really are old, but not all.
The additional money funds a variety of accounts, mostly ones that increase the capacity of the military by spending billions of dollars to procure more aircraft like the F-35 and build and restore ships for the Navy.
The plan will have five lines of effort focusing on everything from bases to workforce.
The Navy’s $222.9 million contract with CGI is at risk of collapse due to problems ranging from vendor performance to implementing an unsatisfactory and inflexible product to significant cost and schedule increases.
The funds would be taken from lesser used programs and savings from some procurement efforts.
The concerns came in the form of letters to Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who solicited the military chiefs for their opinions.
Contracting officers can have interchanges with bidders, but they have to be done fairly, or else the bidder is likely to protest, as the Navy found out recently.
More than 75 years have passed since the Navy has had to repair several battle-damaged ships all at once. Now naval planners are wondering whether this capability might be needed once again.
The Navy, through its Office of Naval Research is pursuing artificial intelligence applications across a broad spectrum of the service’s responsibilities to man, train and equip, as well as warfighting, sustainment and readiness.
Navy planners believe unmanned, underwater vessels will eventually become an important component. Now an associate at the Naval Research Laboratory is close to a breakthrough.
The budget gets rid of the overseas contingency operations account and divests $2.8 billion in legacy systems.
There were at least 40,000 domestic abuse cases in the military over a five year period.