VCNO: Enthusiasm Over Navy’s Performance-to-Plan Readiness Effort is Spreading
As the Navy expands the number of two data-driven programs that generate better readiness, there’s increasing support at the deck…
NATO Maritime Commander: Allies Are Coming Up With Modern Littoral Warfare Concepts, and NATO Needs to Exercise Them
The head of NATO’s maritime force says amphibious operations will play a big role in any future combat or crisis…
BAE Systems Tests Battle Management System in ACVs, As Company Mulls Future Upgrades and Variants
The amphibious combat vehicle’s open architecture design is already allowing builder BAE Systems to experiment with adding in new combat…
Two Navy T-45 Trainers Crash in Texas; All 4 Pilots Safe, 1 Treated for Minor Injuries
Two Navy training jets collided in mid-air today over Texas, but both sets of student pilots and flight instructors survived,…
NAVSEA Seeing Ship Sustainment Successes With Digital Twins, But Wants A More Comprehensive Tool
The Navy is already seeing benefits from using digital twins to test out upgrades and fixes to ships in the…
CNO, Commandant: Services Have A Good Idea of How They’ll Fight, If Congress Helps Them With the Right Spending Plans
The chief of naval operations and commandant of the Marine Corps say they are increasingly clear on how they’d want…
MDA: Test of DDG, Standard Missile-3 IIA a Good Start, But More Work Needed on Homeland Defense Mission
The Missile Defense Agency proved that a Navy destroyer with a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA can stop a simple intercontinental…
Wittman: Navy Needs Money in its Budget for Modernization, But Not From Cutting Cruisers
This post has been updated to clarify that Rep. Rob Wittman would like to see a defense budget of…
USS Harry S. Truman Out of Maintenance After 10 Months; Material Challenges Caused 3-Month Delay
This post has been updated to correct that Drydocking Planned Incremental Availabilities (DPIAs) are now notionally planned to last…
Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures Community Advancing Technology, Tactics for High-End Fight
The Navy has spent the last year or so focused on defining what a new era of high-end, modern warfare…