Navy Takes First Big Step To Cloud, Pushing Logistics To Amazon’s Service
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The Navy’s data is spread all over the place, but a $100 million effort by the Navy aims to change all that within two years.
Marines To Roll Out Major Modernization Plan, Heavy On Drones, Fires
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The Marine Corps and Navy are moving past the insurgent wars of the past two decades and readying themselves to play a central role in countering China and Russia.
Navy Wrestles With Cyber Policy As China and Iran Hack Away
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“We’re spending a lot of money in this area right now, but we don’t understand where we’re spending it” says Navy undersecretary Thomas Modly.
Weld Problems Spread To Second Navy Sub Program
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The company that has experienced slip-ups in delivering missile tubes to the Navy might leave the business, leaving only a single company who can do the work.
How Much Sealift Does US Have For Crisis? It’s Not Sure
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A new study points out that the Navy should do better at tracking how many ships it can call on in a pinch.
Big Data For Big Wars: JEDI vs. China & Russia
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Trump’s war with Bezos and Amazon has overshadowed the reason the military wants cloud computing: to share vital data in a fast-paced global conflict.
Marines Eye Unmanned Systems To Keep F-35s Flying From Remote Bases
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The Navy and Marine Corps are trying to buy new autonomous and unmanned systems more quickly for expeditionary ops, but as one general warned, “if I can’t sustain it, I’m hosed.”
Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs
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“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
US Expands Icelandic Airfield For Tankers, Big Cargo Lift
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An old Cold War base in Iceland has seen over $80 million in US investments in recent years as the Pentagon flies more surveillance missions in the high north — and plans to do more.