NUWC Division Newport: $2 Billion Impact on Economy in 2024
Newport’s incoming funds for fiscal year 2024 totaled $2.0 billion.The Navy and Marine Corps represented Division Newport’s largest customer with $982 million in funding. The next largest were private parties at $23 million, other Department of Defense outfits at $14 million, and the Air Force with $10 million. Incoming funds from the Army and other government organizations represented approximately $3 million
OPINION: Save a Nickel, Kill a Thousand - The Pennies-Wise, Lives-Foolish Effort to Eliminate NOAA
provided by the federal government, except you’ll just have to pay hefty user fees (assuming you’re actually allowed access) to a private company to get those services. And this all assumes that someone is also willing to absorb the capital expenses associated with operating their own air force, navy, and space force. The way you do this is by defunding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or just simply invoking a reduction in force by removing personnel and incapacitating the agency.With the threat of eliminating NOAA, or even just splitting up its parts
Australia Conducts First Maintenance of US Nuclear Submarine
in Australia is a step helping to "better deter aggression in the region and uphold the rules-based international order", the ministers added in Friday's statement.Drills by U.S. B-2 stealth bomber aircraft in Queensland on the east coast include aerial refueling by the Royal Australian Air Force, the defense department said, after plans flagged last month for an increased rotational presence of U.S. forces.(Reuters - Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
James Fisher Names Hales Head of Defense
within the defense industry means he has a clear focus on customer needs and market opportunities," Vernet said.Hales has held leadership roles in the defense industry since 2014, most recently heading Serco’s Aviation and Maritime portfolio providing services to the U.K. Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and commercial customers. Hales also brings with him prior knowledge of James Fisher, having worked alongside its defense specialist - JFD - on the NATO Submarine Rescue System’s mothership.Hales said, "I’m honored to take on the position of Head of Defense for James Fisher, recognizing
Dauphin Island Sea Lab Opens Water-based Research Facility
the productivity of the Gulf of Mexico,” DISL’s Executive Director Dr. John Valentine expressed during the ribbon cutting of the new facility. “We’re now set to do cutting-edge research that has global significance too.”The DISL campus was built from a repurposed U.S. Air Force base, and the wet lab has given new life to the facility’s original generator building.“Giving a nod to the fiscal stewardship of DISL, we were able to take an existing campus asset, and with support from the Alabama Legislature, transform it into a state-of-the-art research facility
Ex-USS Denver Served Until Sunk
Attack Munitions (JDAMs) against a ship, the ex-USS Denver (LPD 9), during a sinking exercise (SINKEX) as part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. VMFA-232 coordinated the strike against the environmentally clean, decommissioned naval vessel in cooperation with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. During SINKEX execution, four U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets from VMFA-232 also fired High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), followed by a Harpoon (AGM-84), and JDAMs. The F/A-18 is unique within the U.S. Marine Corps for its ability to employ a diverse array of air-to-surface and air-to-air
Modeling Shows How Nuclear War Would Devastate the World’s Oceans
low.Even a more limited conflict could push our oceans into a fundamentally new state that lasts much, much longer than we would have expected. Understanding the length, and the weight, of these timescales should be forefront in our calculus of ongoing diplomacy.A Mark 7 nuclear weapon at the US Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio. Creative CommonsThe authorsTyler Rohr, Lecturer in Southern Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling, IMAS, University of TasmaniaCheryl Harrison, Assistant professor in oceanography and coastal sciences, Louisiana State UniversityKim Scherrer, Postdoctoral fellow at the department
Safety Concerns: Norway Inspects Europipe II Subsea Gas Pipeline to Germany
inspect a subsea gas pipeline to Germany because of safety concerns after suspected sabotage last month on two Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, according to sources and data.Norway, Europe's largest gas supplier, last week put its energy sector on high alert, deploying its navy and air force to patrol offshore facilities and placing soldiers at onshore gas processing plants after the Sept. 26 Nord Stream blasts.The Havila Subsea, an oil service vessel equipped with remotely operated subsea vehicles, was deployed on Oct. 5 to survey the Europipe II pipeline that runs from
XLUUV: If You Build It, They Will Buy
, other regional maritime powers who find themselves behind the technology curve and in immediate need of a low cost, credible ASW capability may seek out similar partnerships. Much as cruise missiles, and now drones, have enabled cash-strapped nations to acquire their own “poor man’s air force,” so too could COTS LD and XL-AUVs engender a similar trend with unmanned submersibles.To be sure, LD and XL AUVs are largely uproven as undersea warfare platforms, and it remains to be seen how they will ultimately be integrated into naval operations. But as great power competition continues
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