Jay Stefany to Lead Navy’s New Maritime Industrial Base Program Office
The Navy is standing up a new maritime industrial base program office and has tapped one of its career civil servants to take the helm.…
Navy Issues Boeing $1.49B P-8A Contract Includes Australia’s First 4 Planes, 9 for U.S.
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) formally bought its first four P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft in a $1.49-billion contract…
Document: Frank Kendall’s Research and Development White Paper
The following is an Aug. 26, 2015 white paper by Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L)…
Advanced EOD Robotic System Variant Approved For EMD Phase
This post has been updated to include additional information from the Navy regarding the fielding timelines of all three AEODRS…
Opinion: What if They Held a Salvo Competition and Nobody Came?
After Vietnam, the Department of Defense turned its attention back to the Soviet threat in Europe. Faced with an opposing…
China, Russia Land 400 Marines in First Joint Pacific Amphibious Exercise
Chinese and Russian forces conducted a first-ever joint amphibious exercise landing 400 marines on Russia’s Pacific Coast about 300 miles…
LCS Fort Worth Integrates Fire Scout UAV, RHIBs Into Bilateral Exercises For First Time
The Navy’s summer series of bilateral exercises in the Pacific gave the Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) a chance to…
Document: Report to Congress on Women in Combat
The following is the Aug. 18, 2015 Congressional Research Service report, Women in Combat: Issues for Congress.…
Opinion: U.S. Surface Warfare’s Distributed Lethality Imperative
This year, the U.S. Navy’s surface force is busily war-gaming and analyzing its distributed lethality concept in order to fairly…
Joint High Speed Vessel Launches 2 UAV Types In Fleet Experimentation
As the Navy tries to figure out what to do with its growing fleet of Joint High Speed Vessels, a…
First 4 Enlisted Females Begin Submarine School Today, Ahead Of USS Michigan Assignment
The first four of 38 enlisted women selected to serve on guided missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727) will begin their…