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1 week ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s conduit agency to Silicon Valley is seeking a commercially available unmanned undersea vehicles capable of “deploying large payloads” across ranges further than 1,000 nautical miles.
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1 week ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
WASHINGTON — L3Harris Technologies and Pennsylvania-based start-up Gecko Robotics today announced a new partnership aimed at advancing an “extended reality capability” designed to assist aircraft maintainers remotely check on a plane’s condition. “The 360-degree XR environment allows engineers to assess the health of a platform, regardless of where the fleet is located,” according to a statement from the companies.
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1 week ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
WASHINGTON — Brett Seidle will “perform the duties of” the under secretary of the Navy while the service continues to wait on Congress to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee for the position, according to a new memorandum signed by Navy Secretary John Phelan.
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1 week ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
WASHINGTON — The US Coast Guard is seeking information from industry — at home and abroad — about its capability and capacity to build medium-sized icebreakers under a 36-month timeline from contract award to launching the ship.
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1 week ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
SEA AIR SPACE 2025 — I’ve attended nearly every Sea Air Space exposition since 2017 as a reporter, and the biggest reason that I never miss it is the consistent attendance of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard’s top leadership. And in my opinion, the high levels of turnover among four-star officers and the secretariat was very much reflected in the messages the services sent to industry this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump today signed an executive order tasking the heads of the defense, commerce, labor, transportation and homeland security departments with developing a “Maritime Action Plan” (MAP) that will invest in the shipbuilding industrial base and disentangle the government’s clumsy procurement processes.
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2 weeks ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
SEA AIR SPACE 2025 — In his first major address to industry, Navy Secretary John Phelan promised to use his business acumen to break through the Navy’s “rigid adherence to the old way of doing things” that has led to “complacency, bureaucracy, and in some cases, sub-optimal policy.”“We have to really change the way that we buy things. Change the way we make decisions. We have to be quicker,” he told attendees at the Sea Air Space Exposition today.
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2 weeks ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
SEA AIR SPACE 2025 — The acting chief of naval operations on Monday revealed the surge readiness of the Navy’s various fleets for the first time since the service announced its 80 percent surge readiness goal last year. Adm. James Kilby, who became acting CNO in February after the White House fired Adm.
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2 weeks ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
WASHINGTON — Shipbuilder HII has established an office focused on integrating technologies from across its various business units, with the aim of replicating similar cross-cutting endeavors at the Pentagon, a senior executive recently revealed to Breaking Defense. The idea for what HII calls its Dark Sea Labs (DSL) is to do “what no single HII division can do on its own,” Executive Vice President of Strategy and Development Eric Chewning told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
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2 weeks ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Justin Katz
SEA AIR SPACE 2025 — Unmanned maritime systems manufacturer Saildrone, announced today it has appointed John Mustin, the retired three-star admiral and former chief of Navy reserve, as its president. “John Mustin brings a truly unique blend of naval operational expertise and commercial experience to the company,” said Richard Jenkins, founder and CEO at Saildrone, in a statement.
