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CNO Richardson Wants Aggressive Timelines for New Weapons, Operational Concepts in Updated Navy ‘Design’

December 17, 2018 5:00 PM

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson visits Indonesia to meet with Indonesia navy leadership and to reaffirm the U.S. Navy’s commitment to strengthen the strategic partnership between the U.S. and Indonesia on Oct. 20, 2018. US Navy Photo

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson lays out aggressive acquisition goals and overhauls in how the Navy develops new technologies and implements operating concepts in a sweeping 2.0 revision of his Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority. The push to field new kit and concepts is his effort to ready the Navy for not only high-end warfare but also gray-zone conflict and other challenges related to Russian and Chinese aggression that the service and joint force will have to confront, according to a copy of the document reviewed by USNI News on Monday. Read More →

A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority 2.0

December 17, 2018 4:59 PM

The following is Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson’s new long-range guidance for the U.S. Navy: A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority 2.0. Read More →

Report to Congress on Changes in the Arctic

December 14, 2018 9:56 AM

The following is the Dec. 13, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More →

GAO: Navy Surface, Sub Repair Backlog Grew in 2018; 3 Attack Boats Now Not Certified to Dive

By: Sam LaGrone

December 12, 2018 4:23 PM

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) prepares to pull into Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. in 2017. US Navy Photo

CAPITOL HILL – Maintenance backlogs continue to plague the Navy’s surface ship and attack submarine readiness, with the service losing the equivalent of 17 ships for operational tasking this year due to delays in getting repairs, according to an analysis from the Government Accountability Office. Read More →

GAO Report on Navy, Marine Corps Aviation and Ship Readiness

December 12, 2018 10:23 AM

The following is the Dec. 12, 2018 written testimony of the Government Accountability Office on Navy ship readiness and Navy and Marine Corps aviation readiness. Read More →

Pentagon Balancing Military Needs in the Arctic, Future Infrastructure

By: John Grady

December 5, 2018 2:40 PM

Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN-757) during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016. US Navy Photo

U.S. submarines are in the Arctic to deny a bastion to Russia to attack the United States, but the probability of adding surface warships to the region in the near future as another maritime deterrent is slim, a Navy policy official said Tuesday. Read More →

USNI News 2018 End of Year Survey

December 4, 2018 11:54 AM

This year USNI News is asking its readers to weigh in on the most important naval stories in 2018 in following categories: U.S. Navy operations, U.S. Navy acquisition, U.S. Marine Corps operations, U.S. Marine Corps acquisition, U.S. Coast Guard acquisition and operations and international naval news. Read More →

UPDATED: U.S. 5th Fleet Commander Found Dead in Bahrain

By: Sam LaGrone

December 1, 2018 4:28 PM

Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet aboard USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) on Oct. 24, 2018. US Navy Photo

This post has been updated with additional details on the investigation.

Vice Adm. Scott A. Stearney, commander of U.S. 5th Fleet, was found dead in his quarters in Bahrain on Saturday, according to a statement from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson. Read More →

VIDEO: George H.W. Bush Naval Institute Interview on World War II Service

December 1, 2018 10:14 AM

The following is a 2007 interview with former President George H. W. Bush for the U.S. Naval Institute’s Americans At War series. Read More →

Former President, Naval Aviator George H.W. Bush Dies at 94

By: Ben Werner

December 1, 2018 8:11 AM

President George Bush at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas on Oct. 10, 2010.

George Herbert Walker Bush — 41st President of the United States — died on Friday in his Houston home. He was 94 years old. The former naval aviator with a decades-long legacy of public service was one of six U.S. presidents to have served in the Navy. Read More →

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