Navy Claims New Records for Small Business Participation, Improved Overall Acquisition Efficiency
The Department of the Navy continues to do more and more work with small businesses, again in Fiscal Year 2020…
Geurts: Early Contract Awards During Pandemic Giving Navy Bandwidth to Plan for Possible Continuing Resolution
The Navy has created stability for the defense industrial base during the coronavirus pandemic by awarding contracts early to create…
Navy, Marine Program Cuts Pay Biggest Share of New $4B Pentagon Border Barrier Funding
This post has been updated with statements from shipbuilder HII, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, HASC chairman Rep.…
Continuing Resolution Forcing Navy to Delay Ship Maintenance, Curtail Training
THE PENTAGON – The Navy is already making hard decisions – curtailing training for air wings not imminently deploying, canceling…
Navy Beginning Tech Study to Extend Trident Nuclear Missile Into the 2080s
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy’s Strategic Systems Program this fiscal year will begin looking at what new technologies it will…
Navy’s FY 2019 Contracting Showed Efficiency Improvements, CR May Hamper Progress
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy put more money on contract with less effort from its personnel in Fiscal Year…
Funds for Navy Repair Facilities, European Defense Initiative Shifted to Border Wall
This post has been updated with a Pentagon statement. Navy repair facilities in Virginia and Washington State, planned port improvements…
Budget Analysis Shows DoD Spending Doesn’t Line Up With Focus On High-End Fight
The National Defense Strategy says the Pentagon should focus on countering and deterring China and Russia, but the department’s $738-billion…
Merz: Navy Nearly Out of Readiness Pit; Future Budgets Will Balance Readiness, Size, Capability
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy believes it is almost out of the readiness hole it found itself in over the…
Navy, Pentagon Looking Across Services’ Budgets for Truman Refueling Funding
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy is unsure what spending items, if any, it will have to give up now…