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New American supercarrier Christened
With more than 20,000 attendees, President John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Bouvier Kennedy officially christened the new carrier John F. Kennedy.
“I’m so proud to be the sponsor of this ship and bring her to life,” said Kennedy.
“The CVN 79 crew is fortunate to have such distinguished leaders, this is your day, and our chance to say thank you.”
Kennedy reflected on the first ship to bear her father’s name and how the second Ford-class aircraft carrier will continue to represent her father proudly.
“Having a chance to get to know the people who served on the USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), really gave me insight into who he was, and what kind of leader he was in a way that I wouldn’t have had any other way. And, I know that’s going to be just as true now with a whole new generation,” said Kennedy.
The John F. Kennedy is the second Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier being built for the United States Navy. The ship is under construction and planned to be commissioned in 2022.
On the 1st of October 2019, the ship’s crew was activated for the first time as Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy at a ceremony aboard the vessel at Newport News Shipbuilding.
New American supercarrier Christened
With more than 20,000 attendees, President John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Bouvier Kennedy officially christened the new carrier John F. Kennedy.
“I’m so proud to be the sponsor of this ship and bring her to life,” said Kennedy.
“The CVN 79 crew is fortunate to have such distinguished leaders, this is your day, and our chance to say thank you.”
Kennedy reflected on the first ship to bear her father’s name and how the second Ford-class aircraft carrier will continue to represent her father proudly.
“Having a chance to get to know the people who served on the USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), really gave me insight into who he was, and what kind of leader he was in a way that I wouldn’t have had any other way. And, I know that’s going to be just as true now with a whole new generation,” said Kennedy.
The John F. Kennedy is the second Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier being built for the United States Navy. The ship is under construction and planned to be commissioned in 2022.
On the 1st of October 2019, the ship’s crew was activated for the first time as Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy at a ceremony aboard the vessel at Newport News Shipbuilding.
New American supercarrier Christened
Google wants US Federal Reserve to follow India's UPI example
In a thumbs up to the Indian government's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) scheme, Google has written to the US Federal Reserve Board detailing the successful example of UPI-based digital payment in India in order to build "FedNow" -- a new interbank real-time gross settlement service (RTGS) for faster digital payments in the US.
In a letter written by Mark Isakowitz, Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, US and Canada, Google, the company said it worked closely with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the payment regulator government by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), to build 'Google Pay' for the Indian market.
NPCI deployed a real-time payment system UPI in 2016.
According to Google, UPI was thoughtfully planned and critical aspects of its design led to its success.
"First, UPI is an interbank transfer system (there are now over over 140 member banks, after initially launching with 9 participating banks). Second, it is a real time system. Third, it is 'open' -- meaning technology companies can build applications that help users directly manage transfers into and out of their accounts held at banks," Isakowitz wrote to Ann Misback, Secretary, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Adoption of the system was rapid, growing from 100,000 monthly transactions, to 77 million, to 480 million, to 1.15 billion monthly transactions in the first four years.
"After just three years, the annual run rate of transactions flowing through UPI is about 10 per cent of India's GDP, including 800 million monthly transactions valued at $19 billion," said the company in the letter dated November 7 that was surfaced on Saturday.
"Google has been a successful market participant in India's use of UPI, and Google Pay provides one of the three leading mobile applications that use UPI, as measured by transaction volume," the letter elaborated.
Google said the use of debit, credit and pre-paid cards also nearly doubled during the same period.
Google Pay's monthly active user-base grew three times to reach 67 million in September this year -- up from 22 million in the same month last year.
According to a latest Worldline report tiled "India Digital Payments Report - Q3 2019", the total volume of UPI transactions in Q3 2019 in India touched 2.7 billion, a whopping 183 per cent increase from the same July-September quarter a year ago. In terms of value, UPI clocked Rs 4.6 trillion, up 189 per cent from Q3 2018.
The number of transactions done on mobile wallets was 1.04 billion, an increase of just 5 per cent over previous year period while the value of transactions in the July-September period was Rs 466 billion, an increase of 2 per cent over Q3 of the previous year, said the Worldline report.
According to a recent Assocham-PWC study, digital payments in India will more than double to $135.2 billion in 2023 from $64.8 billion this year with a compounded annual growth of 20.2%.
Google said that after learning its lessons from the India digital payments market, it offers specific suggestions to the Fed Reserve to "support real-time low-value and high-value payments, use standardized messaging protocols with extended metadata, and provide clear standards for an Application Programming Interface (API) layer that enables licensed non-financial institution third parties to access and submit requests into this payment system".
Google wants US Federal Reserve to follow India's UPI example
In a thumbs up to the Indian government's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) scheme, Google has written to the US Federal Reserve Board detailing the successful example of UPI-based digital payment in India in order to build "FedNow" -- a new interbank real-time gross settlement service (RTGS) for faster digital payments in the US.
In a letter written by Mark Isakowitz, Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, US and Canada, Google, the company said it worked closely with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the payment regulator government by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), to build 'Google Pay' for the Indian market.
NPCI deployed a real-time payment system UPI in 2016.
According to Google, UPI was thoughtfully planned and critical aspects of its design led to its success.
"First, UPI is an interbank transfer system (there are now over over 140 member banks, after initially launching with 9 participating banks). Second, it is a real time system. Third, it is 'open' -- meaning technology companies can build applications that help users directly manage transfers into and out of their accounts held at banks," Isakowitz wrote to Ann Misback, Secretary, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Adoption of the system was rapid, growing from 100,000 monthly transactions, to 77 million, to 480 million, to 1.15 billion monthly transactions in the first four years.
"After just three years, the annual run rate of transactions flowing through UPI is about 10 per cent of India's GDP, including 800 million monthly transactions valued at $19 billion," said the company in the letter dated November 7 that was surfaced on Saturday.
"Google has been a successful market participant in India's use of UPI, and Google Pay provides one of the three leading mobile applications that use UPI, as measured by transaction volume," the letter elaborated.
Google said the use of debit, credit and pre-paid cards also nearly doubled during the same period.
Google Pay's monthly active user-base grew three times to reach 67 million in September this year -- up from 22 million in the same month last year.
According to a latest Worldline report tiled "India Digital Payments Report - Q3 2019", the total volume of UPI transactions in Q3 2019 in India touched 2.7 billion, a whopping 183 per cent increase from the same July-September quarter a year ago. In terms of value, UPI clocked Rs 4.6 trillion, up 189 per cent from Q3 2018.
The number of transactions done on mobile wallets was 1.04 billion, an increase of just 5 per cent over previous year period while the value of transactions in the July-September period was Rs 466 billion, an increase of 2 per cent over Q3 of the previous year, said the Worldline report.
According to a recent Assocham-PWC study, digital payments in India will more than double to $135.2 billion in 2023 from $64.8 billion this year with a compounded annual growth of 20.2%.
Google said that after learning its lessons from the India digital payments market, it offers specific suggestions to the Fed Reserve to "support real-time low-value and high-value payments, use standardized messaging protocols with extended metadata, and provide clear standards for an Application Programming Interface (API) layer that enables licensed non-financial institution third parties to access and submit requests into this payment system".
Google wants US Federal Reserve to follow India's UPI example
U.S. Navy RQ-4A BAMS-D Surveillance Drone Damaged During Takeoff in the Middle East
The Class-A mishap reduced the BAMS-D fleet to just two operational drones remaining.
An RQ-4A BAMS-D (Broad Area Maritime Surveillance – Demonstrator) of the U.S. Navy was damaged by unspecified Foreign Object Debris (FOD) while taking off for a mission in the Middle East. The incident, first reported by USNI News on December 12, happened on Nov. 26, 2019.
Here’s the full statement from the US 5th Fleet:
According to USNI News, a summary of the accident stated that the US Navy categorized the damage as a Class-A mishap, which means it caused $ 2,500,000 or more worth of damage. Class-A mishaps criteria may involve also the total loss of the aircraft, however that doesn’t seem to be the case as the statement mentioned only damages.
An RQ-4A BAMS-D of the US Navy. (Photo: U.S. Navy)
The US Navy acquired five RQ-4A from the Air Force for the BAMS program which resulted in the development of the MQ-4C “Triton”. After the loss of a first airframe in 2012 in the Chesapeake Bay and another one shot down in June 2019, this incident may have reduced the total operational fleet to just two BAMS-D. Meanwhile, the US Navy introduced in service the MQ-4C which should replace the BAMS-D when it reaches the Initial Operational Capability in 2021.
Here’s what our Editor David Cenciotti wrote back in June about the BAMS and BAMS-D programs:
The Class-A mishap reduced the BAMS-D fleet to just two operational drones remaining.
An RQ-4A BAMS-D (Broad Area Maritime Surveillance – Demonstrator) of the U.S. Navy was damaged by unspecified Foreign Object Debris (FOD) while taking off for a mission in the Middle East. The incident, first reported by USNI News on December 12, happened on Nov. 26, 2019.
Here’s the full statement from the US 5th Fleet:
“On 26 November, 2019, a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Demonstration (BAMS-D) struck foreign object debris (FOD) during takeoff while supporting operations in the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility. The mishap resulted in damage to the port side of the aircraft. No personnel were injured. A mishap investigation is ongoing and we therefore have no further releasable details.”
The Navy didn’t provide details about the airbase from where the drone was operating, however various versions of Global Hawk from the Air Force and Navy, including the EQ-4B BACN (Battlefield Airborne Communications Node), are known to fly out of Al Dhafra Airbase in the United Arab Emirates.According to USNI News, a summary of the accident stated that the US Navy categorized the damage as a Class-A mishap, which means it caused $ 2,500,000 or more worth of damage. Class-A mishaps criteria may involve also the total loss of the aircraft, however that doesn’t seem to be the case as the statement mentioned only damages.
An RQ-4A BAMS-D of the US Navy. (Photo: U.S. Navy)The US Navy acquired five RQ-4A from the Air Force for the BAMS program which resulted in the development of the MQ-4C “Triton”. After the loss of a first airframe in 2012 in the Chesapeake Bay and another one shot down in June 2019, this incident may have reduced the total operational fleet to just two BAMS-D. Meanwhile, the US Navy introduced in service the MQ-4C which should replace the BAMS-D when it reaches the Initial Operational Capability in 2021.
Here’s what our Editor David Cenciotti wrote back in June about the BAMS and BAMS-D programs:
The BAMS-D is a RQ-4A Global Hawk High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and provides real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions (ISR) over vast ocean and coastal regions.
As part of what was initially the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration program, beginning in 2006, before the Global Hawk platform was selected as the BAMS winner, the U.S. Navy purchased five RQ-4As from the U.S. Air Force: at least one RQ-4A Block 10 was assigned to the VX-20 at Patuxent River for test purposes some time ago.
Although the test aircraft are referred to as BAMS demo drones, they are sensibly different from the actual MQ-4C BAMS Triton that, in spite of the same basic airframe, has a completely different radar and surveillance equipment. Dealing with the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C “Triton” Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS), this is an ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) platform that will complement the P-8A Poseidon within the Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force family of systems: for instance, testing has already proved the MQ-4C’s ability to pass FMV (Full Motion Video) to a Poseidon MPA (Maritime Patrol Aircraft). An advanced version than the first generation Global Hawk Block 10, the drone it is believed to be a sort of Block 20 and Block 30 Global Hawk hybrid, carrying Navy payload including an AN/ZPY-3 multi-function active-sensor (MFAS) radar system, that gives the Triton the ability to cover more than 2.7 million square miles in a single mission that can last as long as 24 hours at a time, at altitudes higher than 10 miles, with an operational range of 8,200 nautical miles. The U.S. Navy plans to procure 68 aircraft and 2 prototypes.
U.S. Navy RQ-4A BAMS-D Surveillance Drone Damaged During Takeoff in the Middle EastAs part of what was initially the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration program, beginning in 2006, before the Global Hawk platform was selected as the BAMS winner, the U.S. Navy purchased five RQ-4As from the U.S. Air Force: at least one RQ-4A Block 10 was assigned to the VX-20 at Patuxent River for test purposes some time ago.
Although the test aircraft are referred to as BAMS demo drones, they are sensibly different from the actual MQ-4C BAMS Triton that, in spite of the same basic airframe, has a completely different radar and surveillance equipment. Dealing with the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C “Triton” Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS), this is an ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) platform that will complement the P-8A Poseidon within the Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force family of systems: for instance, testing has already proved the MQ-4C’s ability to pass FMV (Full Motion Video) to a Poseidon MPA (Maritime Patrol Aircraft). An advanced version than the first generation Global Hawk Block 10, the drone it is believed to be a sort of Block 20 and Block 30 Global Hawk hybrid, carrying Navy payload including an AN/ZPY-3 multi-function active-sensor (MFAS) radar system, that gives the Triton the ability to cover more than 2.7 million square miles in a single mission that can last as long as 24 hours at a time, at altitudes higher than 10 miles, with an operational range of 8,200 nautical miles. The U.S. Navy plans to procure 68 aircraft and 2 prototypes.
3rd Gerald R. Ford carrier to be named the USS Enterprise. No warp drives will be fitted at launch.
USS Enterprise (CVN-80) - Wikipedia
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US Navy issues massive $22 Billion order for nuclear submarines
Eight of the nine Block V Virginia class attack subs will have the Virginia Payload Module with four large diameter payload tubes amidship.
US Navy issues massive $22 billion order for nuclear submarines
Eight of the nine Block V Virginia class attack subs will have the Virginia Payload Module with four large diameter payload tubes amidship.
US Navy issues massive $22 billion order for nuclear submarines
USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma to sail again, acting Navy Secretary says
HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — Navy ships named USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma will return to active duty with the announcement today by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly that two new Virginia-class attack submarines will be named after American heroes of the greatest generation who perished on the famed Pearl Harbor battleships.
The move brings back into service the hallowed ship names 78 years after both were badly damaged in the surprise Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Most of the Navy casualties that day came from losses on those two ships.
“I am honored and humbled to name the next two Virginia-class nuclear fast-attack submarines to be built as the USS Oklahoma (SSN-802) and the USS Arizona (SSN-803),” Modly said in a release. “It is my fondest wish that the citizens of the great states of Arizona and Oklahoma will understand and celebrate our Navy’s desire to memorialize the 1,177 heroes who perished in USS Arizona (BB-39) and the 429 more in USS Oklahoma (BB-37) in Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941.”
Modly added that “there is no greater honor I can think of for the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the nation than to build and commission into active service two state-of-the-art American warships carrying the spirit of those heroes of the greatest generation, as well as that of their families and the Grand Canyon and Sooner states as they sail through a new American maritime century.”
Approximately 1.8 million people annually visit the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, which includes the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma and USS Utah memorials, six officer bungalows, three mooring quays, and the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center.
“Today is a proud day for Arizona,” Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a release. “It’s been nearly 80 years since the attacks on Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the sinking of the USS Arizona and deaths of 1,177 of her crewmembers. This ship and the name, ‘USS Arizona,’ hold special meaning for our country, its history and the people of Arizona — and today, that legacy begins a new chapter.”
USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma to sail again, acting Navy Secretary says
HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) — Navy ships named USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma will return to active duty with the announcement today by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly that two new Virginia-class attack submarines will be named after American heroes of the greatest generation who perished on the famed Pearl Harbor battleships.
The move brings back into service the hallowed ship names 78 years after both were badly damaged in the surprise Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Most of the Navy casualties that day came from losses on those two ships.
“I am honored and humbled to name the next two Virginia-class nuclear fast-attack submarines to be built as the USS Oklahoma (SSN-802) and the USS Arizona (SSN-803),” Modly said in a release. “It is my fondest wish that the citizens of the great states of Arizona and Oklahoma will understand and celebrate our Navy’s desire to memorialize the 1,177 heroes who perished in USS Arizona (BB-39) and the 429 more in USS Oklahoma (BB-37) in Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941.”
Modly added that “there is no greater honor I can think of for the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the nation than to build and commission into active service two state-of-the-art American warships carrying the spirit of those heroes of the greatest generation, as well as that of their families and the Grand Canyon and Sooner states as they sail through a new American maritime century.”
Approximately 1.8 million people annually visit the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, which includes the USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma and USS Utah memorials, six officer bungalows, three mooring quays, and the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center.
“Today is a proud day for Arizona,” Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said in a release. “It’s been nearly 80 years since the attacks on Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the sinking of the USS Arizona and deaths of 1,177 of her crewmembers. This ship and the name, ‘USS Arizona,’ hold special meaning for our country, its history and the people of Arizona — and today, that legacy begins a new chapter.”
USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma to sail again, acting Navy Secretary says
AAG high cyclic test validation.
General Atomics Advanced Arresting Gear System Completes Cri
General Atomics Advanced Arresting Gear System Completes Cri
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that High Cycle Testing of its Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) system for Ford-class aircraft carriers was successfully completed over a two-day period in October 2019 at the Runway Arrested Landing Site (RALS) in Lakehurst.......
.....“Over and over again, in rapid succession, AAG sustained an aircraft arrestment rate of nearly one per minute successfully testing the system’s capability to handle the recovery sequence required for combat readiness"
.....“Over and over again, in rapid succession, AAG sustained an aircraft arrestment rate of nearly one per minute successfully testing the system’s capability to handle the recovery sequence required for combat readiness"