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Trump Orders Extensive Study of Defense Industrial Base
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The review will examine manufacturing capacity, workforce and other priorities.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to launch a cross-government study of whether the country’s manufacturers can fully supply the military’s needs during a war or lower-level conflict, officials said Friday.

The review will investigate whether there are enough manufacturers to supply everything from submarine propeller blades to circuit boards and military-grade semiconductors, and whether there’s enough skilled labor to keep those factories running, presidential advisor Peter Navarro said during a press briefing.

The review will look for single points of failure that government policy can address, said Navarro, who is director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.

He called the order “one of the most significant presidentially led actions on the state of the defense industrial base since Dwight Eisenhower was in office.”

The Pentagon will lead the review, which will loop in the Homeland Security, Commerce, Energy and Labor departments and numerous other agencies, Navarro said.

Homeland Security and Commerce, for example, could investigate how “dual use” restrictions on imports and exports affect defense readiness, Navarro said. The U.S. government restricts companies from exporting certain items such as software that probes digital code for hackable vulnerabilities and surveillance technology that can be used for both nefarious and benign purposes.

It’s not clear when President Donald Trump will sign the executive order or when its text will be released.

It’s also not clear whether the report will examine the Defense Department’s acquisition process, which is notoriously lengthy and complicated. DOD officials may choose to study the Pentagon’s own buying procedures if it deems them within the study’s scope, Navarro said.

The report will be due to the president in an unclassified version within nine months of the order, he said, with a possible classified annex.

The report will go beyond an annual DOD
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on industrial base capabilities, because it will loop in expertise from other government agencies along with the priorities of those agencies, such as promoting trade and raising employment, Navarro said.

He described the forthcoming executive order as “a microcosm of the Trump culture,” which “does not silo defense, the economy and trade and the workforce” but embraces “all the interconnections between a strong manufacturing base, a strong industrial base, a strong workforce, vibrant communities…that strengthen our tax base which…allows us to buy the material and weapons.”

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by the Trump administration in April.
 
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Coast Guard: Missile Test Could Be Held Next Weekend
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The U.S. will conduct as soon as next weekend another test of a
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The launch from Alaska's Kodiak Island is scheduled to occur at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, according to a
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notice. Mariners are advised to remain clear of swaths of ocean between Kodiak Island and Hawaii through the weekend.

U.S.
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soldiers are stationed temporarily at the launch complex for U.S. Missile Defense Agency testing of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully completed a Flight Test THAAD-18 operation from Kodiak earlier this month. That test "validated THAAD's ability to intercept intermediate range ballistic missiles," said Chris Johnson, U.S. Missile Defense Agency director of public affairs.

The FTT-18 test earlier this month included the launch of "two interceptors from two co-located launchers," Johnson wrote in an email to the Kodiak Daily Mirror. "The first missile engaged the target. The second interceptor was launched to test operational procedures."

A second test from the site, called the FTT-15, will test the system's ability to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile within the earth's atmosphere, said Leah Garton of U.S. Missile Defense Agency public affairs.

THAAD,
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, uses a direct hit to intercept a target in its final phase of flight. THAAD systems have been placed in Guam and South Korea to counter missile threats from North Korea.
now they need to hit though
 

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US Navy’s first purpose-built expeditionary sea base deploys
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USNS Lewis B. Püller
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Taking a look on the 2 variants same hull 239 x 50 x 12 m 80000 tons max big ! operated by MSC

Lewis B. Püller, 1 in service + 1 in order is a Expeditionary Mobile Base or Afloat forward staging base, confirmed now have a hangar for 2 MH-53E and as on the pics her flight deck can host 4 in more can host 300 troops especialy SF.
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ESB variant: Hangar for 2 × MH-53 and large flight deck
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Püller normaly replace Ponce the last Austin to Manama/Bahrain 5th Fleet used mainly for minesweeping

Other is Montford Point, 2 + 1 in order, Expeditionary Transfer Dock can host 3 LCAC and also vehicles, " with the capability to perform large-scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore "
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U.S. Navy boss: Network everything
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more from the CNO for example
“Without a doubt, we have returned to an era of maritime competition,” he said, noting that until now the U.S. Navy enjoyed uncontested control of the seas for 20 to 25 years.
CNO: ‘Access to Data at the Speed of Combat’ Needed
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The Navy’s top officer said that its platforms, sensors and people need to be networked to keep ahead of the capabilities of competitor nations.

Speaking July 21 to an audience at the Naval Future Force Science & Technology Expo in Washington, Adm. John M. Richardson, chief of naval operations (CNO), said that the Navy will need “access to data at the speed of combat.”

Richardson said the Navy needs to grow its power by in three ways: increasing the number of platforms, increase the capability of each platform and “network everything to everything.”

The CNO noted that the number of unique combinations of networks is growing not just exponentially but in terms of a factorial curve.

“We’re moving toward a scheme that treats sensors as a service,” he said. “This idea of sensing is becoming ubiquitous,” with such things as CubeSat spacecraft and on-demand imagery now available.

A fourth factor, he said, is the Navy’s Sailors, keeping them trained to meet the challenges of the future.

“As long as you’ve got trained people, you’ve got capability,” he said, noting that technological advancement has to be made “with people in mind.”

Using the quadrennial hardware and software upgrades of submarine combat systems as an example, Richardson said it is hard to keep people trained and to manage the periodic refreshing of a submarine’s combat systems across the entire force.

Richardson said numerous studies of the needed size of the fleet all point to the mid-300s (in terms of ships), “350 in the late 2030s, which is way too late. We need to get it in the 2020s. The industrial base is ready to handle this challenge.

“The momentum of the game is not in our favor,” Richardson said, noting the rapid advancements of the navies of peer competitors such as China.

The CNO described the People’s Liberation Army Navy as “a global navy,” mentioning that a Chinese destroyer and support ships participated in an exercise this summer with the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea.

“Without a doubt, we have returned to an era of maritime competition,” he said, noting that until now the U.S. Navy enjoyed uncontested control of the seas for 20 to 25 years.
 

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Report to Congress VIRGINIA Class Industrial base

Yet confirmed one Virginia in more for FY 2021 in more 1st Columbia possible same for others years without Columbia maybe possible 3 Virginia, end up worckforce for EB from 9000 workers to 13000 same HII/Newport News
MYP saving 10 + % one Virginia on 10 for free good for taxpayer :)

Actual " target " 48 SSNs later normaly 66 with a new chart adapted
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