Austal USA Breaks Ground on New Steel Assembly Facility
Austal USA broke ground on its planned final steel assembly facility Tuesday, the company announced in a statement.…
Analysis: Navy Doesn’t Know What it Wants with LCS
Christopher P. Cavas’ much-discussed March, 18 Defense News story about the recommendations of Vice Adm. Tom Copeman revealed that even…
Report: Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization
From the March, 15 Congressional Research Service report: Coast Guard polar icebreakers perform a variety of missions supporting U.S. interests in…
Former LCS CO Talks Singapore Deployment
Capt. Kenneth Coleman knows more about the Littoral Combat Ship program than most any sailor. Currently Coleman works at U.S.…
Low Cost Ship Options for U.S. Navy’s Drug War
The U.S. Navy is examining low-cost high-speed ships to replace aging surface ships in U.S. Southern Command’s fight against drug…
Hagel Orders New Defense Review
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is tasking the Pentagon with reexamining the U.S. military’s strategic assumptions in a more fiscally…
AP: USS Miami Might Not Get Repaired
The Navy may not repair a nuclear attack submarine damaged in May by an act of arson, according to the…
Report: Surface Forces CO Wants One LCS Design, Scrap DDG-51 Flight III
The commander of U.S. Surface Forces wants to look at a move to one design of the controversial Littoral Combat…
USS Miami Arsonist Gets 17 years in Prison
The admitted arsonist that set fire to the nuclear attack submarine USS Miami was sentenced to 17 years in federal…
Opinion: Don’t Short The Coast Guard’s New Cutter
The U.S. Coast Guard has in place ambitious programs to revitalize the U.S. cutter force to meet the daunting requirements…
Memo: Coast Guard to Cut Operations by 21 percent
The Coast Guard plans to reduce surface and air operations by 21 percent and defer depot level maintenance due to…