DefenceTalkSecretary of the Navy Ray Mabus today directed the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy/Deputy Chief Management Officer (DUSN/DCMO) to begin a comprehensive assessment of the business challenges facing the Navy and Marine Corps. He also instructed the offices of the DUSN/DCMO to begin developing a plan to address the multiple budgetary […]https://www.defencetalk.com/department-of-the-navy-prepares-to-face-new-challenges-48915/

DefenceTalkSouth Korea’s Navy held a ceremony Tuesday to launch its fourth 1,800-ton, 214-type submarine to boost its underwater warfare capabilities. The fourth submersible of 214-type, which represents the size of the warship, was launched in the afternoon at a shipyard of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje Island, southeast of Seoul, the Navy said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-korea-launches-4th-1800-ton-submarine-48745/

DefenceTalkIndia launched its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier on Monday, a landmark moment in the $5 billion project that seeks to project the country’s power and check the rising influence of China. When the INS Vikrant comes into full service in 2018, India will become the fifth nation to have designed and built its own aircraft […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-milestone-as-it-launches-own-aircraft-carrier-48736/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy completed the first fleet firing of Raytheon’s Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 as part of its ongoing developmental and operational testing (DT/OT). In an at-sea test conducted from the USS Arlington (LPD 24), two RAM Block 2 missiles engaged a subsonic target in a scenario designed to demonstrate the advanced missile’s defensive […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rolling-airframe-missile-block-2-completes-initial-fleet-firing-48701/

DefenceTalkPilots and flight crews with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade worked closely with the U.S. Navy to conduct deck landing qualifications aboard the USS Chafee (DDG-90), USS Hopper (DDG-70), USS Guadalupe (AO-32), and the USS Tarawa (LHA-1), in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, July 15-19. More than 25 pilots from 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment; […]https://www.defencetalk.com/25th-combat-aviation-brigade-navy-perform-deck-landings-48685/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy recently awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] a $1.98 billion contract for 13 additional P-8A Poseidon aircraft, continuing the modernization of U.S. maritime patrol capabilities that will ultimately involve more than 100 P-8As. The contract includes long-lead funding previously approved by the Navy. The Navy has now ordered 37 of the 117 P-8As it […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-boeing-sign-order-p-8a-poseidon-aircraft-48670/

DefenceTalkScientists recently launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a research vessel in a significant experiment that could help boost the Navy’s radar and communications performance at sea. Sailing off Virginia Beach, Va., from July 13 to 18, the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Research Vessel (R/V) Knorr explored ocean and atmospheric weather variations that can […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navy-turns-to-uavs-for-help-with-radar-communications-48668/

DefenceTalkThis memo stipulates that the DON must virtualize all current servers and server-based systems/applications. The process of virtualization will allow multiple operating systems and applications to be run on a single physical server, thus reducing operational costs and improving flexibility within the existing information technology infrastructure. To achieve operational cost reductions and improve flexibility in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navy-rolls-out-server-system-and-application-virtualization-plan-48638/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy got its first look at the upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned system when Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered its first MQ-8C system this month. Northrop Grumman is the Navy’s prime contractor for the MQ-8 Fire Scout program of record. The company delivered the first MQ-8C aircraft to the Navy in early July […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-upgraded-mq-8c-fire-scout-delivered-to-us-navy-48544/

DefenceTalkA Chinese naval fleet was Sunday spotted sailing for the first time through an international strait between northern Japan and Russia’s far east, the Japanese defence ministry said. The two missile destroyers, two frigates and a supply ship passed through the Soya Strait from the Sea of Japan to the Sea of Okhotsk early Sunday, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-naval-fleet-seen-off-northern-japan-48432/