Warships’ Nuclear Waste Heading to Idaho
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The Navy and Department of Energy announced they’ll build a $1.65 billion nuclear waste storage facility in eastern Idaho to handle fuel waste from the nation’s fleet of nuclear-powered warships, Navy Times reports.
The Navy’s $4 billion guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt is slated to dock in San Diego on Thursday, following a slew of mechanical glitches that sidelined it for weeks in Virginia and Panama, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
The unmanned aircraft revolution is resurrecting configurations tried in the 1950s which proved impractical with a human pilot inside. Breaking Defense reports on the Tailsitter Drone.
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube say they will create and share a database of terrorist content to increase enforcement of policies designed to curb terrorist content, reports USA Today. And reports as well, that President-elect Donald Trump has invited technology industry leaders to a roundtable next week in New York.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and ranking members of the chamber’s national security committees wrote President Obama calling for intelligence officials to give a classified briefing to all members of Congress on Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, reports NextGov.
F-35B Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) wrapped up its third and final developmental test phase, reports the Second Line of Defense, aboard amphibious assault ship USS America.
DefSec Ash Carter to visit Israel for delivery of its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, reports DoD Buzz. Israel was the first country to sign on to buy the F-35 through the US government’s foreign military sales process.
The Navy is testing its plan to put medical clinics in some commissaries in Jacksonville, Florida, reports Military Times.
What will ISIS do next? US military will review strategy for President-elect Trump, reports International Business Times.
While the Navy says LCS Shock Tests had positive results, the Pentagon still has concerns about the trials, reports USNI.org. The Pentagon’s top operational tester warned in his written testimony that the shocks were performed at reduced severity due to concerns about excessive damage to the ships.
Contracts:
Booz Allen Hamilton, Lexington Park, Maryland, is being awarded $23,238,164 for modification P00014 to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-16-C-0034) to provide approximately 276,322 hours of technical services in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s Special Communications Mission Solutions Division. Services to be provided include systems design, development, assessments, acquisitions, planning, integrated project management, and strategic and analytical services for the command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance operational systems. Work will be performed in St. Inigoes, Maryland (49 percent); Lexington Park, Maryland (48 percent); San Diego, California (2 percent); and Fayetteville, North Carolina (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2017. Fiscal 2017 working capital (Navy) funds in the amount of $5,050,000 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
