UCLASS Delayed Another Year
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Pentagon and Congressional questions surrounding the mission and requirements of the Navy’s UCLASS continue and, again, resulted in another year’s delay to 2016 before a formal competition will begin, reports Defense Tech.
Calling himself a “stickler for command,” Politico reports on Ash Carter’s opening day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense also told the committee he supported acquisition reform and an end to sequestration. And even though the Air Force doesn’t want it, Mr. Carter also said he’d listen to arguments in favor of keeping the A-10, reports DoD Buzz.
Senators on both sides of the aisle introduced legislation demanding the Pentagon be auditable by September 2017 or face penalties, reports The Hill. DoD is the only major federal agency that has not completed a financial audit. In 2010 a $6 billion effort failed to get the Pentagon’s books in auditable order.
China is selling more arms worldwide, but the US is making more money at it, reports Want China Times.
Seeking commercial involvement in DoD’s transition to cloud computing, DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen says, large-customer leverage could produce savings and expand use of the cloud, reports Defense Systems.
Navy. mil reports, an artificial pectoral fin integrated into a man-portable, unmanned vehicle able to maneuver close to shore is named the Wrasse-inspired Agile Near-shore Deformable-fin Automaton, or, put another way, the Navy’s latest underwater UAV looks like a fish, and it’s called WANDA.
Despite cuts in defense spending, Investor Place says Lockheed stock remains a “strong buy.” The Pentagon’s FY16 budget includes purchase of $10.6 billion worth of Lockheed’s fighter jets, reports Sputniknews, 44 Conventional Take Off and Landing F-35s for the Air Force, nine Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing F-35s for the Marine Corps, and four Carrier variant F-35s for the Navy. And for their contract to upgrade Taiwan’s F-16 fighter jets, Lockheed will be using Northrop Grumman radar systems, reports Executive Biz.
Richard Aboulafia in Aviation Week & Space Technology describes how the imminent Long-Range Strike Bomber will reshape the Military Aircraft Industry, again.
