Top Stories 2019: Navy and Pentagon Leadership
This post is part of a series of review stories looking back at the top naval news from 2019. 2019…
Navy Buys Three MQ-4 Tritons, Pays For Growler Jamming Upgrade Development
The Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a pair of contracts worth nearly $287 million to buy unmanned surveillance aircraft and to…
VIDEO: Navy Leaders Acknowledge Tough Year in Holiday Messages
As Navy leaders shared holiday message videos today, they acknowledged that 2019 has been tough for the Navy in some…
Top Stories 2019: International Operations
This post is part of a series of review stories looking back at the top naval news from 2019. The…
First Virginia-Class Block V Subs Named For Pearl Harbor Battleships
The Navy will name the first two Block V Virginia-class attack submarines in honor of the crews of a pair…
BAE Systems Shuttering Pearl Harbor Maintenance Operation
BAE Systems Hawaii Shipyard is getting out of the surface ship repair business at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, a…
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Dec. 23, 2019
These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world…
Boeing CEO Muilenburg Out
Capping a year of bad news for Boeing, maker of the beleaguered 737 Max airliner and a vareity of military…
Fire-Stricken USS Iwo Jima Conducts Sea Trials; Investigation into Cause, Damage Assessment Ongoing
A month after a fire in a hazardous material space injured 11 sailors, amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)…
Report to Congress on Chinese Naval Modernization
The following is the Dec. 20, 2019 Congressional Research Service, China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues…