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.…
Stackley Talks Ships
Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy (ASN) (Research, Development & Acquisition (RDA), is currently leading U.S. Navy and Marine…
Funding Faults Threaten to Hollow Force
With the passage of the Budget Control Act (BCA) in 2011, Congress and the President set up a series of…
China’s Rise: WEST Day Three
The Chinese navy intrudes on the maritime rights of its neighbors, bullies other nations and is determined to build a…
‘We Can Ill Afford Not To Be Ready’ : WEST Day Two
The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet told a morning audience at the WEST 2013 convention that the Pentagon’s decision…
Sequestration Dominates: WEST Day One
Sequestration dominated the first day of WEST 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center on Tuesday, with Adm. James A.…
Opinion: The Right Destroyer at the Right Time
Proceedings, Jan. 2013 The Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyers are the backbone of the Fleet. For the past 20 years, the DDG-51s…
Opinion: Women in Combat is Old News
In a joint news conference on Thursday afternoon, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs announced…
Drafting Women?
The Pentagon announced yesterday it would end its official policy banning women from serving in ground-combat roles, opening an estimated…