2024 Australian National Defense Strategy
The following is the 2024 Australian National Defense Strategy released this week.…
Electric Boat Receives Half-Billion-Dollar Award To Help Submarine Suppliers Expand
The Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat nearly half a billion dollars to help shore up its submarine supplier base…
Navy Busy in INDO-PACOM with Multinational Exercises, Freedom of Navigation Operations
Several multinational exercises focused on interoperability have taken place in the Indo-Pacific region recently, including two involving French Navy aircraft…
Merz: Navy Nearly Out of Readiness Pit; Future Budgets Will Balance Readiness, Size, Capability
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy believes it is almost out of the readiness hole it found itself in over the…
Navy Planning Aggressive Unmanned Ship Prototyping, Acquisition Effort
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Navy has tightly coupled early prototyping efforts and future acquisition efforts for medium and large…
Virginia Block VI Subs Will Focus on Special Operations, Unmanned
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Virginia-class attack submarine program office is in the early stages of determining what its Block…
Report to Congress in Iran’s Foreign and Defense Policies
The following is the May 8, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Iran’s Foreign and Defense Policies.…
Navy: USS Columbia Will Have Most Complete Design Ever at Official Construction Start
This post has been updated to correctly state that the first patrol will begin in October 2030 and that design…
U.S. Navy Undersea Rescue Team Rethinking How it Deploys After Argentine Sub Loss
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Executing a submarine rescue is a race against time to reach a trapped crew before a…
2019 Pentagon Report to Congress on Chinese Military Development
The following is the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019.…
Budget Concerns Led Huntington Ingalls to Sit Out Coast Guard Icebreaker Contest
The U.S. Coast Guard offered industry the potential for a multi-ship, multi-year, multi-billion-dollar program in its heavy icebreaker competition –…