Jay Stefany to Lead Navy’s New Maritime Industrial Base Program Office
The Navy is standing up a new maritime industrial base program office and has tapped one of its career civil servants to take the helm.…
Vietnam Takes Delivery of First Kilo Attack Boat
Vietnam has taken delivery of the first of a planned six Project-636 Kilo-class submarines from Russia, according to several local…
CNO Greenert to Congress on Budget: ‘We’re Tapped Out’
The leaders of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps gave their bleak assessments of the future of Sea Service readiness…
BAE Systems to Close One of World’s Oldest Shipyards
BAE Systems will close its shipyard operations in Portsmouth, U.K. in 2014 ending a tradition of 500 years of shipbuilding…
Navy: Despite Cost Overruns Ford Carriers are Built for Affordability
The head of the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier program offered a mea culpa for cost overruns on the service’s new…
Updated: Keel Laid for First Dedicated Afloat Forward Staging Base
Clarification: A previous version of this post included an out-of-date artist’s conception of the Lewis B. Puller. General Dynamics NASSCO…
Document: U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments and Issues
The following is from the Oct. 22, 2013 Congressional Research Service report: U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues.…
Lockheed Martin SR-72 is Only a Plane on Paper
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and Aerojet Rocketdyne have made a breakthrough in hypersonic propulsion technology, but the Mach 6.0-capable SR-72…
Navy Selects Virginia Payload Module Design Concept
The Navy has selected a design concept to replace its nuclear guided missile submarines (SSGNs), NAVSEA officials told USNI News…
Navy Christens First Block III Virginia Attack Boat
The Navy has christened the service’s eleventh Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine in a Saturday ceremony in Groton, Conn., according to…
Lockheed’s SR-72 Could Fill Crucial Pentagon Need
Could Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ SR-72 hypersonic concept design fill the Pentagon’s need for a penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance…