Number of Furlough Days Reduced from 22 to 14
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Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers asks the Pentagon to cancel furloughs, Government Executive reports. Instead, DoD has reduced the number of furlough days from 22 to 14, Navy Times reports. DoD has already restored tuition assistance, according to The Hill.
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Former CNO Adm. Gary Roughead says the Pentagon should consider dropping the Air Force F-35A version of the Joint Strike Fighter for the Navy’s F-35C to have fewer variants of the aircraft, FlightGlobal reports. Time knocks the JSF program’s press release about that “operational” vertical landing by a test pilot.
Reversing its decision to end production of the EA-18G Growler, the Navy orders 21 more (paywall), according to Inside Defense.
NAVAIR’s FACE software team wins the Navy’s Defense Standardization Program Achievement Award; and PMA-273 wins a Test and Evaluation Award.
Defense Acquisition University will hold a training forum on the Pentagon’s Better Buying Power policy April 9.
Wired profiles the Navy’s drone options for the UCLASS program.
NAVAIR contracts: Sikorsky gets $15.8 million more for depot-level maintenance for aircraft operated by Adversary Squadrons and $10.1 million more for additional non-recurring engineering for the conversion of one UH-3H helicopter to a UH-3D Trainer Aircraft; Raytheon gets a $14.9 million order for 103 Pod Adapter Units and NavFLIR Surrogates for the F/A-18 E/F aircraft; BAE Systems gets $7.9 million more for the procurement and repair of Common (Identification Friend or Foe) Digital Transponder (CXP) hardware for the Army, Navy, and foreign governments; and Lockheed Martin gets $6.6 million more for the operational support of two KMAX Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems deployed in operational support of Marine Corps.
