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.…
Conflict with Iran: Lessons From the Past
The 2013 Surface Navy Association’s Naval Heritage program topic was Operation Praying Mantis. The program featured first hand accounts of…
Joint Chiefs to Congress: Budget Cuts Will Result in Deaths
The Joint Chiefs of Staff made another round of dire warnings about impending sequestration at a hearing Wednesday, this time…
CNO’s HASC Opening Statement
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert’s opening statement to the House Armed Services Committee for the Feb. 13 House…
AP: Karzai ‘Welcomes’ Afghan Troop Withdrawal
Hamid Karzai welcomes the withdrawal of 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the next year, the Afghan president said in…
MDA’s Satellite Missile Tracker Scores First Kill
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully conducted the first live test Wednesday of a satellite missile tracking system designed to…
SECNAV: Monitor Sailors to be Buried in Arlington
Two of the U.S. Navy’s oldest unknown sailors from the Civil War ship USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington…
Reports: US Starts Pulling Gear Out of Afghanistan
The massive material withdrawal from Afghanistan began Monday when almost 50 containers of weapons and equipment began leaving via Pakistani…
Opinion: Chuck Hagel and the Necons
Chuck Hagel’s going over at the hands of Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday was more than…
Navy: Lincoln Refueling Delayed, Will Hurt Carrier Readiness
The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Harry S. Truman…
Down to One Middle East Carrier
Looming budget restrictions means the U.S. Navy will reduce the American presence in U.S. Central Command from two aircraft carriers…