Report to Congress on Polar Security Cutter Program
The following is the April 29, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress.…
Clash for Naval Power in the Asia Pacific
As China builds a coast guard with ties to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), the quest for naval power…
House Panel Will Take on Pentagon Acquisition
Saying “we’re making it harder and harder for good people to serve in the system,” the vice chairman of the…
Document: Appropriations Lapse and the Department of Homeland Security
The following is from Oct. 24, 2013 Congressional Research Service report: FY2014 Appropriations Lapse and the Department of Homeland Security: Impact…
Update: Shutdown’s Impact on the Pentagon.
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE A TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE. The following is a Oct. 17, 2013…
Pentagon Faces its own Debt Ceiling Crisis
If the debt ceiling is not raised there would be delays in paying salaries even to the military and recalled…
Pentagon’s Ashton Carter to Step Down in December
Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will step down from his position in December, according to a Thursday afternoon release…
HII Starts Fabrication on Sixth National Security Cutter
Huntington Ingalls Industries has begun fabrication on the sixth of a planned eight Legend-class National Security Cutters for the U.S.…
Proceedings: Naval Institute at 140
Sometimes in the throes of the monthly and bimonthly Proceedings and Naval History deadlines we lose sight of just how…
Government Shutdown: The Basics
With the House voting again to delay for a year the start of the Affordable Care Act and repealing a…
Opinion: ‘Never Forget’
The following story originally appeared in Proceedings, September 2011. A decade later, a former naval officer recalls the day he was working in…