March 29, 2024

Atlantic Test Range Gets MILCON Funds

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The FY15 budget includes $9,8 M for a two-story building addition for the Atlantic Test Range at Pax River and $15.3 M for the Advanced Energetics Lab Complex at Indian Head, reports The BayNet. Project numbers.amounts and details at NavFac.

DoD will submit a $585 billion budget request for FY16. The request scheduled to go to Congress Feb. 2, is above FY16’s congressionally mandated $499 billion cap and will likely set up “contentious debate with Congress” and  “tense hearings with the service chiefs and defense secretary,” reports Defense News.

The Navy still plans to buy 68 Triton platforms although reliability is reducing the attrition rate initially calculated into the buy. The assurance was noted in an Australian Defence Magazine report saying Australia may resume its relationship with the US Navy and the Triton program.

Price and export complications for Boeing suggest a Korean firm is ahead in the competition to build Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter jet, reports Aviation week.

The new eCASS has arrived, and the Navy expects to save $1 billion a year on Lockheed’s automated aircraft test system, updated from the 1990s model still in current use, reports Defense Systems.

A small plane and pilot parachute surprisingly gently into the sea. A USCG video captures the entire operation, from the plane stalling, through the pilot’s rescue. The Aviationist posts the amazing footage.

If everything from refrigerators to self-driving Google Cars are connected to the web, reports Breaking Defense, “[e]very acquisition that DoD does needs to worry about cybersecurity,” said Richard Hale, Pentagon Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity.

 

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