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.…
Naval Systems: Antiship Missile Moves Toward Flight Test
Proceedings, Oct. 2012 Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control business unit started a series of airborne “captive-carry” testing in May…
Trends in Hybrid and Irregular Warfare
Proceedings, September 2012 Savvy adversaries are more capable than ever of using high-tech gadgets and social media against the United…
Pending Congressional Budget Measure Could Hurt Navy and Marines
The Federal government’s fiscal year comes to an end on September 30, and for the sixth straight time, lawmakers will…
The Fundamentals of Surface Warfare: Sailors and Ships
Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the outgoing commander of U.S. Fleet Forces, sent the following message to U.S. Navy surface…
Outgoing Fleet Forces CO: ‘I Could Have Done Better’
More than a decade ago, Navy leaders decided to abandon historic standards for ship-manning levels and for shipboard maintenance, supposedly…
Atlantic Naval Forces Have a Future
Since Congress passed the “Two-Ocean Navy Bill” in 1940, the U.S. Navy has been sized to operate simultaneously in the…
The Future of the Carrier Air Wing
What should the carrier air wing of the future look like? The topic has taken on new significance as a…
The Farming of the Sea
Fishing is one of mankind’s oldest organized activities. From the time our earliest ancestors first sorted through tidal pools to…
An Unmanned Joint Strike Fighter?
CRYSTAL CITY, VIRGINIA — Three nautical miles from an amphibious assault ship, I toggled a small button labeled “STOVL,” or short…
Opinion: Parochial Interests Threaten Biofuels
The U.S. Navy kicked of its annual Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises last Friday and will use the world’s…