CRS Report: Navy Shipbuilding Outlook
Shipbuilding and related programs that could experience execution problems under a year-long CR include the CVN-78 aircraft carrier program, the CVN Refueling Complex Overhaul…
Update: Controversial Medal Faces New Review
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is calling for a review of the ranking of a controversial new medal created to honor the contribution of…
Navy and NASA: From Mercury to Apollo
In 2014, a Navy ship will recover a NASA capsule from the first time since 1975. The mission to recover the Orion will reestablish a relationship going…
Senate Defense Leaders Want New Medal Ranked Lower
Senate leaders have joined a grassroots call to lower the precedence of a new medal that recognizes warfare contribution from unmanned vehicle pilots and…
U.S. Navy to Recover New NASA Capsule
At the start of U.S. space flight, capsules from the Mercury to Apollo programs were plucked from the sea by Navy and Marine helicopters…
Sheriff: Three Dead After Navy Prowler Crash
Three are confirmed dead following a Monday crash of an EA-6B Prowler originating out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, according to local press…
USS Miami Arsonist Could Get 20 Years in Prison
The worker who caused an estimated $450 million in damages to the USS Miami (SSN-755) in May in a confessed act of arson faces…
China at Odds with U.N. Treaty
On Jan. 22, Ma Keqing, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, was summoned to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila and handed a…
NOAA’s James Delgado on Burial of USS Monitor Sailors
The Director of Maritime Heritage for the National Marine Sanctuaries Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, James Delgado is also the author…
March 8, 2013 Monitor Service Chapel Program
The program for the March 8, service for two unknown sailors from the USS Monitor who were lost at sea in 1862.…
Civil War Sailors Will Be Laid to Rest Today in Arlington
The remains of two unknown sailors from the Civil War’s most iconic sea battle will be buried in Arlington today in ceremony marking the…
Report: North Korean Provocative Actions Since 1950
The following is a 2007 Congressional Research Service report on the provocative actions taken by the North Koreans from 1950 to 2007.…