Navy

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released finds the Navy’s four public shipyards have experienced “significant delays” in finishing submarine maintenance, affecting operational readiness. Moreover, the report projects the […]

This week a Navy official told a House panel the service is examining if they can speed up the effort to recapitalize the public shipyard infrastructure faster than the currently […]

The Navy has completed nine of the total 11 planned weapons elevators on the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier, Adm. John Aquilino told a congressional panel on Tuesday. […]

The Navy last Friday awarded General Dynamics’ [GD] Electric Boat Corp. business unit a $2.4 billion modification exercising an option to build the second FY ’21 Block V Virginia-class attack […]

General Dynamics’ [GD] Mission Systems business unit announced last Thursday it delivered the first Knifefish surface mine countermeasure unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) system to the Navy. The company told Defense […]

A Navy official on Thursday said the service sees the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker possibly eventually adding strike missions and that up to 40 percent of the future air […]

The Navy and Marine Corps released the unclassified version of a new framework strategy to develop capabilities that can work across various unmanned platforms. The new plan, called the “Unmanned […]

The vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said she feels like Congress does not understand all the inputs for the Navy’s future fleet plans  and is skeptical […]

The vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Monday argued against the repeating idea of retiring an aircraft carrier early to save money. While speaking during a […]

The State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of five P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft to Germany for $1.77 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of […]