Navy

The Navy Department’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan has three alternative scenarios for the service’s acquisition and inventory of battle force ships, with two reflecting a budget with “no real growth” […]

According to the recently released Navy Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Highlights book, the service is seeking to end the Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) program, decommission the 25 […]

The Navy’s research agency successfully demonstrated a high-energy laser defeating a cruise-missile type target in recent months, the Navy said on April 13. The all-electric high-energy Lockheed Martin [LMT] Layered […]

This week the U.S. and India said they are starting to consider expanding defense cooperation by potentially using Indian shipyards to repair and maintain U.S. Military Sealift Command ships. The […]

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report recommends the Navy increase the involvement of the Supervisors of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair (SUPSHIPs) to improve shipbuilding oversight and help the Navy […]

HII [HII] recently launched its new Odyssey suite of autonomy solutions that it says can be put on any ground, air, surface sea, or undersea vehicle to be made into […]

In a surprise win, the Navy awarded Bollinger Shipyards a $14 million contract on April 8 for production of the Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MCM USV) over two other […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – This week the Chief of Naval Operations defended the Navy’s fiscal year 2023 budget request fleet additions by comparing his focus on a credible and supportable […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The program manager for the Constellation-class (FFG-62) frigate this week said prime contractor Fincantieri Marinette Marine can meet the Navy’s demand for now and any decision […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy’s new aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), achieved initial operational capability (IOC) in December without a public announcement issued, the Navy’s program manager […]