FY19 Weapons Procurement Costs
Here is an informational post about various weapon procurement costs to help inform our discussions. Unless otherwise noted, the…
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Frigate News
Here’s some interesting news about the Navy’s proposed new frigate. As regular readers know well, ComNavOps is dead set against …
The Inmates Are Going To Run The Asylum
We all believe that the Pentagon acquisition system is badly broken and needs to be reformed. How to do that, however, is highly…
Self-Interest
Lockheed has let it be known that they are investing internal effort at packaging Patriot missiles onto naval vessels (1) – this …
How To Build A Better Aircraft
As we discuss terminating the F-35 and why it’s a good/bad idea, I continue to hear the notion that we have no choice but to cont…
Navy Issues Tanker RFP
The Navy has issued a draft Request For Proposals (RFP) to industry for the planned carrier based unmanned aerial tanker, the MQ-…
The Sacred Cow
If there’s a sacred cow in the Navy, it’s got to be the LCS. Come hell or high water, the LCS will continue. The latest example…
Anti-Ship Missiles
ASM
Distributed Lethality
Harpoon
Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile
LRASM
Networks
Over The Horizon
Procurement
Third Offset Strategy
LRASM Drops Out of OTH Competition
Well, the Navy’s over the horizon (OTH) anti-ship missile (ASM) selection process just gets more baffling by the day! As you rec…
Déjà Vu
We’ve beaten the LCS horse repeatedly, to the point that it’s not even fun anymore. However, it bears one more examination in li…
Contract Insanity
The contract insanity continues. “Landscape Management Systems Inc.,* Tumon, Guam, is being awarded a $9,632,953 modification to …
Hangar Doors Cost What?!
From the defense.gov website (Contracts: 28-Nov-2016 ), "G-W Management Services LLC,* Rockville, Maryland, is being awarded…
You'll Do It Because We Said So
Well, this is just fascinating. We’ve seen how many different types of procurement contracts there are (it’s mind boggling) and …
RQ-21 Blackjack
The Navy and Marines have a tendency to latch onto pieces of equipment with little or no data to base such enthusiasm on other th…
I Want More Money
As reported by USNI News website, a group called the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition is asking Congress to authorize a…
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