GD NASSCO Wins $6.7 Billion, 8 ship Fleet Oiler Contract
A San Diego shipyard has been awarded a potential $6.7 billion contract for eight John Lewis-class (T-AO-205) fleet oilers, Naval Sea Systems Command announced on Friday.…
USCG’s Adm. Papp on Arctic Operations and Caribbean Drug Runners
Even as the Coast Guard gets a grip on the Arctic, drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific are slipping through…
Navy Responds to Pentagon LCS Survivability Claims
Navy leadership responded Wednesday to a Tuesday Pentagon report saying both variants of the littoral combat ship (LCS) are “not…
Commander Surface Force: Navy is Risking a Hollow Surface Fleet
The head of naval surface forces fears the sea service is teetering dangerously close to an operational cliff where ships…
The Royal Navy’s Pacific Strike Force
Naval History Magazine, January 2013 After more than five exhausting years of global conflict, the British Commonwealth organized a powerful…
HII CEO Mike Petters Talks Business
Mike Petters has been the chief executive officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries since the shipbuilder was spun off from Northrop…
China: Birth of a Global Force?
In 2010, Rear Admiral Zhang Huachen, China’s East Sea Deputy Commander, said, “With our naval strategy changing now, we are…
This Time, It’s Different
Proceedings, January 2013 A close observer of defense-spending trends takes a look at dollars and sense and the looming budget…
Combat Fleets: Final Lewis and Clark Launched
Proceedings, Jan. 2013 The U.S. Navy’s 14th and final Lewis and Clark –class dry-cargo/ammunition ship was delivered on 24 October.…
Policy Difference Could Scuttle Second Virginia Submarine in 2014
Two weeks before budget-makers face the fiscal cliff deadline, there continues to be a great deal of uncertainty within the…
Cause for Alarm
Proceedings, December 2012 The Navy’s future leaders should go to General Quarters with so many commanding officers being in the…