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.…
House Passes Pentagon Spending Bill
The House passed a full Fiscal Year 2013 spending bill allowing the military more flexibility in programming sequestration cuts on…
Navy Defends Monday’s LCS Contract Award
The U.S. Navy’s chief shipbuilder is defending Monday’s $1.4 billion awards for the next four Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) in…
Lockheed Successfully Defends Aegis Contract
Lockheed Martin beat Boeing and Raytheon to win a $100.7 million contract to for five years worth of upgrades to…
House Offers DoD Budget Scalpel Instead of Axe
The U.S. House of Representatives revealed a stopgap bill to allow the Department of Defense more flexibility to apply cuts…
Budget Cuts Could Pull Navy Out of The War on Drugs
U.S. Navy frigates will stop patrolling for drug runners by April because of forced sequestration budget cuts, a Navy spokesman…
Secretary Ray Mabus’ Sequestration Message
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African Piracy’s Next Front
Portions of this article were first published with OCEANUS Live Pity the Somali pirates, who after an abysmal year in…
Cuts Mean Veterans Wait Longer for Arlington Burial
The ten percent sequestration cuts across the Department of Defense budget will increase wait times at Arlington National Cemetery, a…
LCS CO: Freedom is ‘A Mean Looking Ship’
USS Freedom (LCS-1) leaves Naval Station San Diego, Calif. on Friday for a new deployment with a new camo paint…
Updated: NASSCO Could Layoff 730 Due to DoD Budget Cuts
This story was updated from a previous version to include a statement from NASSCO. Shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO could lay…