Report to Congress on Navy Medium Landing Ship
The following is the Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) (Previously Light Amphibious Warship [LAW]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress on July 23, 2024. …
Document: CBO Report on the U.S. Navy’s Fiscal Year 2015 Shipbuilding Plan
The following is the Congressional Budget Office’s Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2015 Shipbuilding Plan, released on Dec. 15,…
Opinion: The Expanding Assault on China’s South China Sea Claims
China’s ambiguous claim to the South China Sea, approximately demarcated by a series of hash marks known as the “nine-dashed…
U.S. and China Conduct Anti-Piracy Exercise
In a rare bilateral exercise, the U.S. and China conducted anti-piracy training off the pirate-prone Gulf of Aden, the Navy…
Up Gunned LCS Hulls Picked for Navy’s Next Small Surface Combatant
PENTAGON — The Navy will beef up the weapons, armor and sensors on its two existing classes of Littoral Combat…
Document: Small Surface Combatant Factsheet
The following is Dec. 11, 2014 fact sheet on the results of the Navy’s recent Small Surface Combatant study.…
U.S. Navy Allowed to Use Persian Gulf Laser for Defense
PENTAGON — The U.S. Navy has declared an experimental laser weapon on its Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) in the…
Omnibus Spending Bill Includes Money for 15 Growlers, 12th San Antonio
The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill from Congress includes $1.46 billion for 15 Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft and…
Opinion: U.S. Carrier Force is a Cost Effective National Security Asset
“What kind of navy do Americans want?” columnist George F. Will asked in an August Washington Post commentary. “The answer…
Taiwan Wants to Buy U.S. Frigates Despite Chinese Objections
The Taiwanese government said has sets aside $176 million to buy two Oliver Hazard Perry as part of a potential…
NAVSEA Chief Talks Risk, Cyber and A New Era of Naval Shipbuilding
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The head of the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance arm spends a lot of time thinking about risk. The…