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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, February 3, 2015

VOL. 251 NO. 20 February 03, 2015

Funding and Policy

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USAF Slips Next Joint Stars, Opens Door to GPS Competition

Feb 02, 2015
The procurement and research and development (R&D) plan would increase in the fiscal 2016 budget request by $8 billion compared with levels enacted by Congress in fiscal 2015.
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Pentagon Budget Seeks More Money, Cuts Than Capitol Hill Wants

Feb 02, 2015
The Obama administration’s budget blueprint for the next five fiscal years will try to kick-start the long-awaited defense technology push at the Pentagon.
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Nuclear Bow Wave Builds With Program Starts

Feb 02, 2015
The 2016 budgets for the U.S. Defense and Energy departments mark the start or expansion of a number of nuclear-deterrence initiatives, but with many of the bills coming due in future years.
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U.S. Navy Budget Maintains Aircraft Force

Feb 02, 2015
The funding request supports 4,056 aircraft, the same number as it did in fiscal 2015, which was a slight increase over the 3,947 in fiscal 2014.
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U.S. Army Aviation Restructuring Reliant On Halt To More Sequestration

Feb 03, 2015
The U.S. Army is seeking more rotorcraft – including Black Hawks, Apaches and Chinooks – in its fiscal 2016 budget request, but it is all contingent on Congress avoiding another round of funding cuts through sequestration.
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Growing Classified Budget Spends [Redacted] Billion On [Deleted]

Feb 02, 2015
Major increases this year include classified research and development under Air Force operational systems development, which would grow 25% over 2015 to reach $12.8 billion – 75% of Air Force operational systems development and almost half of all Air Force R&D.
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Focus On Aviation, Ground Vehicles In Fiscal 2016 Army Budget

Feb 03, 2015
The U.S. Army is seeking $146.5 billion in funding for fiscal 2016 to buy more rotary-wing aircraft and ground combat vehicles, and to upgrade training and readiness.
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U.S. Navy Looks For Surface Shipbuilding Increase In FYDP

Feb 02, 2015
The total requested amount across the 2016-2020 FYDP is about $95.9 billion for 104 ships.
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U.S. Navy Budget Buoys Submarine Programs

Feb 02, 2015
The Navy received authority for a follow-on multiyear procurement contract for up to 10 Virginia-class attack submarines beginning in fiscal 2014.
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U.S. Coast Guard Continues To Focus On Cutters, Aircraft

Feb 03, 2015
The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for slightly more funds in fiscal 2016, looking to sustain programs to bolster its cutters and aircraft.
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Analysts: U.S. Defense Budget Represents Desires, Not Reality

Feb 02, 2015
Financial and defense analyst reaction to the Obama administration’s fiscal 2016 defense budget request and five-year spending blueprint on Feb. 2 was largely muted, tempered by the reality that Washington is a gridlocked capital and President Barack Obama’s spending-growth proposal represents just the latest step in a marathon that may not end. The reason is because while Congress generally wants to spend what is requested or more, no one can agree how to do so.
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NASA’s $18.5 Billion Budget Request Boosts Commercial Crew

Feb 02, 2015
NASA is asking for $500 million more in fiscal 2016 than it received from Congress last year to try to meet its many obligations.

Programs

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Cabling Ordered For Second Chinese Carrier

Feb 02, 2015
Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group has “won the contract for China’s second aircraft carrier,” the government of the eastern city of Changzhou has announced.
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ILS Proton Lifts Inmarsat’s Second Global Xpress To Orbit

Feb 02, 2015
The rocket lifted off at 7:31 a.m. EST carrying the Boeing-built GX spacecraft, also known as Inmarsat-5 F2. Spacecraft separation followed 15.5 hr. later at 12:02 a.m. EST.
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Soil-Moisture Spacecraft Orbited From Vandenberg

Jan 31, 2015
Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are setting up NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Earth-observation satellite following its Jan. 31 launch into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
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Persero Begins Building Philippine Assault Ships

Feb 03, 2015
Indonesian shipbuilder Persero has begun construction of two assault ships for the Philippine navy, with a target of delivering them for service from…

Forecasts/Industry Data

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U.S. Defense Department Fiscal 2016 Budget Request

Feb 03, 2015
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NASA Fiscal 2016 Budget Request

Feb 03, 2015
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Contracts

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Selected U.S. military contracts for the week of Jan. 26-30, 2015

Feb 03, 2015
Selected U.S. military contracts for Jan. 26, 2015 U.S. NAVY BAE Systems Information Solutions Inc., San Diego, (N68936-15-D-0007), and Information…

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Feb 03, 2015
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS has two National Security Agency (NSA) Enterprise Program Management (EPM) contracts totaling $367.3m. Five-year contracts provide…

In Brief

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HASC Leader Blasts Budget Request; Carter Nomination Scheduled

Feb 03, 2015
This week U.S. lawmakers get their first view of a White House defense budget request that largely ignores sequestration spending caps, and the…

Funding & Policy