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	Navy Scraps Big Carrier Study, Clears Deck For OSD Effort The study into what kind of carriers the Navy might need in a decade’s time was problematic from the start, and conflicted with the Pentagon senior leadership’s redo of the Navy’s force structure plan.
	Navy Culture Tops List Of SecNav Reforms; Budgets Uncertain In a friendly hearing on Capitol Hill, incoming service leaders back up the wishful thinking about future budgets we have seen from Pentagon leadership.
	Navy Begins Rebuild Of Digital Backbone; Likely SecNav Appears Onboard The Navy’s Cyber Readiness Review released last March delivered a scathing critique, calling weak spots and persistent holes in the system an “existential threat” to the existence of the Navy and Marine Corps.
	Navy Wants Robot Boats But Will Still Need Sailors To Fix Them “We need to find a balance of vehicle designs that enables the cost to be cheap enough that we can afford them, but it’s not so highly optimized towards the purely unmanned spectrum that it’s cost prohibitive to maintain them.”
	EXCLUSIVE Navy To Publish Promotions, Prodded By Sen. Warren “The Navy must align itself with the rest of the Department of Defense,” Gilday said in a letter obtained by Breaking Defense. “I value the need for transparency with the American Public and am grateful for your engagement on this matter.”
	Fincantieri Wins Bigger Place In Navy Plans, Takes Frigate Contract “This is going to be a real workhorse supporting distributed maritime operations in the future,” Vice Adm. James Kilby, deputy chief for warfighting requirements and capabilities, said.
	Acting SecNav Decides To Keep Major Modly Reforms Acting Navy Secretary James McPherson is only three weeks into the job, but is making weighty decisions, including Wednesday’s call for a wider inquiry into his predecessor Thomas Modly’s firing of the captain of the COVID-19 stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt.
	Navy Acquisition Boosts Ship Contract Awards Under COVID-19 “I think there are ways we can come out of this much more resilient, but you know it’s hard to change bureaucracy and institutional ways of doing business [to] make sure that this disruption doesn’t go to waste,” says Navy acquisition chief James Geurts.
	Navy Readies To Buy New Frigates As Industrial Base Wobbles The Navy will recompete the program after the first 10 ships are under contract, leading to a new award and another bite at the apple for the bidders who lost out the first time around.
	Battle For The Arctic: Russia Plans Nuke Icebreaker, US Counters China In Greenland US official: “We can expect the rapidly changing Arctic system to create greater incentives for the Kremlin and the PRC to pursue agendas that clash with the interests of the United States.”
	Navy Rushes To Get F-35s on USS JFK; Other Ford Carriers Wait Their Turn The service’s aircraft carrier boss says the COVID economic slowdown hasn’t effected building new carriers — yet.
	EXCLUSIVE DoD Seeks $2.9B For Hypersonics In 2021 While Army and Navy spending nearly double, Air Force and independent agency spending drops almost 40 percent.
	West’s Nuke Carriers Slammed While China Signals Taiwan, Japan Monday may have marked a turning point for how the Navy, and perhaps the Pentagon, is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions over how deeply it might cut into military operations and what toll it will take on military readiness and operations.

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Hybrid Electric Drive (Part 1) Leonardo DRS provides hybrid electric drive (HED) ship propulsion solutions systems that deliver advantages in flexibility, modularity and commonality; supporting requirements for fuel savings and growing power efficiency demands on future ships.
Hybrid Electric Drive Configurations and Related Systems Leonardo DRS provides hybrid electric drive (HED) ship propulsion solutions systems that deliver advantages in flexibility, modularity and commonality; supporting requirements for fuel savings and growing power efficiency demands on future ships.
SHINCOM Control and manage every aspect of naval communications ob-board or ashore with Leonardo DRS' SHINCOM 3100 Shipboard Integrated Communications system.
Build-To-Print Build-To-Print is a Navy Acquisition Process where the Navy can pay a reduced price and receive a quality product, equipment or components according to their exact specifications.
Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) ensures the critical need for consistent power on a ship will remain ceaseless.

Podcasts: Navy Priorities

U.S. Navy Priorities 2020:
The Intersection of Industry and the U.S. Navy

A discussion with Leonardo DRS senior leaders on how the defense budget is prioritizing the modernization of the U.S. Navy and how that is guiding business priorities for the company. Listen to this special edition podcast with CEO, Bill Lynn; Head of Domestic and International Business Development, Mike Coulter; and Senior Vice President for Government Relations, Matt Green. The podcast will be moderated by Breaking Defense senior editor, Barry Rosenberg.

Naval Business News

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5/11/2020 4:46:26 PM	Navy Asks DRS Laurel to Provide Ethernet Shipboard Networking Equipment for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers Military & Aerospace Electronics - May 2020	Communications_and_Networks,Computing_and_IT
5/6/2020 5:59:42 PM	The Color of Heat: How Quantum Cascade Lasers Solve the Navy’s SWaP Problem in Protecting Helicopters Breaking Defense - May 2020	Aircraft_Survivability,EO/IR
4/28/2020 4:06:55 PM	"Energy Magazine" Gives the Navy Power for Shipboard Lasers and Other High-Energy Systems Breaking Defense - April 2020	Power_and_Propulsion
9/4/2019 2:36:17 PM	Leonardo DRS Awarded Up to $462 Million Contract to Provide U.S. Navy Advanced Combat Networking Hardware ARLINGTON, VA - April 28, 2020	Computing_and_IT
4/25/2020 5:35:47 PM	Leonardo DRS Hosts a “Purple Up” Day for Military Children ARLINGTON, VA - April 28, 2020
4/15/2020 6:08:28 PM	U.S. Air Force, Navy to Train Pilots As They Will Fight RealClearDefense - April 11, 2020	Avionics,Training_and_Simulation
1/31/2020 4:05:54 PM	Where do traditional defense companies fit in the Pentagon’s tech push? January 2020
9/19/2019 5:42:07 PM	VIDEO: What does a changing threat environment mean for the military-industry relationship? September 6, 2019

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