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Marines Declare Current ACV Design Meets All Ship-to-Shore Requirements as Testing Continues

Program Executive Officer Land Systems put the Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 through high surf testing in December 2018 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The vehicle successfully navigated through waves measuring over six feet in height, meeting the ACV 1.2 anticipated requirements, and enabling the Marine Corps to combine the program into a singular ACV family of vehicles. US Marine Corps photo.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marine Corps has put the Amphibious Combat Vehicle through its paces...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/21/marines-declare-current-acv-design-meets-ship-shore-requirements-testing-continues

Navy Retooling Fire Scout Program to Focus on More Complex Warfare Missions

Maintainers from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) analyze diagnostics from the MQ-8C Fire Scout on the flight deck of the Independence variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) on June 21, 2018. US Navy photo.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is rethinking how it will employ its emerging MQ-8C Fire Scout rotary-wing unmanned vehicles to help Littoral Combat Ships take on tougher targets in a new age of great power competition.

Within the last year, the Navy has shifted the focus of...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/20/navy-retooling-fire-scout-program-focus-complex-warfare-missions

With Tweaks and Upgrades, MV-22B Osprey Poised to Add More Might to the Marines 

A U.S. Marine assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 (MWSS-371) provides security as a MV-22B Osprey sits on the landing strip in Yuma, Ariz., on Jan. 22, 2019. US Marine Corps Photo

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Technology and weapons upgrades to the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor will give Marines a better edge in the networked battlespace, a combat pilot said last week.

“The Osprey’s mission revolves around one thing… the Marine on the ground. The purpose of the Osprey is to deliver troops, supplies and...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/21/tweaks-upgrades-mv-22b-osprey-poised-add-might-marines

U.S. Fleet Forces Command Creating Analytics Office to Asses Fleet, Industrial Readiness

Commander, U. S. Fleet Forces Command Adm. Christopher W. Grady delivers the keynote address during the AFCEA/USNI WEST 2019 conference in San Diego on Feb. 15, 2019. US Navy photo.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – U.S. Fleet Forces Command announced a new initiative to address operational fleet and industrial base readiness through data analytics.

“We need some fundamental changes in how we approach readiness, how we generate it, analyze it, measure it, integrate it, articulate what we need and predict what...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/19/41252

Senators Urge Caution Ahead of Next Trump-Kim Summit

Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA in Singapore Summit on June 12, 2018. White House Photo

Two senators are wary there will be any movement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula following this month’s summit talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vietnam.

“I worry a lot” about the lifting of sanctions on Pyongyang without seeing concrete steps being taken to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons and expanding...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/18/senators-urge-caution-ahead-next-trump-kim-summit

Neller: Marines Need $3.5 Billion for Camp Lejeune Repairs, Despite MILCON Cuts for Border Spending

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller speaks with a Marine during a visit to Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 13, 2019. US Marine Corps Photo

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The commandant of the Marine Corps hopes the Pentagon and Congress can find money for hurricane damage repairs at Camp Lejeune, N.C., despite military construction funding being diverted for the Trump Administration’s border security plan.

Lawmakers and President Donald Trump agreed Friday to a bill that would provide $1.375...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/17/neller-marines-need-3-5-billion-camp-lejeune-repairs-despite-milcon-cuts-border-spending

Coast Guard Secures $655 Million for Polar Security Cutters in New Budget Deal

A curious Adelie penguin stands near the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Jan. 7, 2016. During their visit to Antarctica for Deep Freeze 2016, the U.S. military’s logistical support to the National Science Foundation-managed U.S. Antarctic Program, the Polar Star crew encounters a variety of Antarctic marine life, including penguins, whales and seals. U.S. Coast Guard photo

The Coast Guard’s long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/15/polar_security_cutter_coast_guard

WEST: Marines Expanding Sea Control Laboratory to Test Command and Control Concepts, Gear

The landing force operations center maintained by Marine Corps Tactical System Support Activity on Camp Pendleton, Calif., replicates sea-based systems normally seen on U. S. Navy ships, allowing Marines to improve their understanding command and control mediums by testing them in a simulated environment. US Marine Corps

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marines are expanding its shore-based, sea control test lab to help ensure sea-going Marines’ command and control systems will work once they get aboard...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/15/west-marines-expanding-sea-control-laboratory-test-command-control-concepts-gear

CEO: Steady Flow of Navy Contracts Will Keep HII Building for Years

Launch of Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG-121) on 2018. HII Photo

With a two-aircraft carrier buy approved, contracts for two National Security Cutters and a contract for a guided-missile destroyer awarded late last year, Huntington Ingalls Industries has a healthy backlog of work to keep the company busy for the next several years, company officials said on Thursday.

HII Chief Executive Mike Petters also gave insight into what the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan looks like from the shipyard’s...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/14/41162

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