An undated photo of JS Izumo (DDH-183) underway. The ship commissioned on March 25, 2015. JMSDF Photo
Report: Japan’s Largest Warship Heading to South China Sea, Will Train With U.S., Indian Navies
Sunday, November 26, 2023
U.S. Navy Detains 5 After Failed Attempt to Capture Merchant Ship, IKE in Persian Gulf
Document: Report to Congress on Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle, Marine Personnel Carrier Programs
The following is the March. 8, 2017 Congressional Research Service report, Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) and Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC): Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Lawmaker Worries Marine Corps Investing Too Heavily In Aviation Over Ground Vehicles
U.S. Marine Corps pilots maneuver a CH-53K King Stallion as it delivers a 12,000 pound external load after completing a 110 nautical mile mission during the two-week initial operational test (OT-B1) conducted at Sikorsky. Sikorsky photo.
The Marine Corps’ top financial officer told lawmakers that the service considers its modernization programs properly balanced between aviation and ground needs, while acknowledging that there hasn’t been enough money in recent years to buy the ground assets at a proper pace. Read More
Navy: Decommissioned Carrier Independence Leaves for Texas Scrapyard Saturday
USS Independence (CV-62) in 1979. US Navy Photo
The decommissioned aircraft carrier Independence (CV-62) will depart from Naval Station Kitsap, Wash. for Brownsville, Texas on Saturday, Naval Sea Systems Command announced on Thursday. Read More
Document: Letters from Congress Protesting U.S. Coast Guard Budget Cuts
The following are a collection of letters to the White House and Office of Management and Budget director from Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) and a group of 23 Senators led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) protesting the proposed $1.3 billion cut to the U.S. Coast Guard in OMB’s proposed FY 2018 draft budget. Read More
Opinion: Doing the Most with the Least; the Coast Guard Dilemma
National Security Cutter Munro completed builder’s sea trials in August. HII Photo
No other service over the last decade has been hit harder by budget cuts and sequestration than the U.S. Coast Guard. In a time when our maritime services have been asked to do more with less, the Coast Guard has been engaging increased maritime threats with its leanest force in decades. Read More
CENTCOM Gen. Votel Outlines Challenges From Islamic State, Russia, Iran
Gen. Joseph Votel, U. S. Central Command commander, speaks at a commander’s call at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Feb. 23, 2017. US Air Force Photo
A range of competing interests in the Middle East are creating multiple complex situations for U.S. Central Command to navigate, CENTCOM commander Army Gen. Joseph Votel testified today. Read More
Sources: Former Marine, Banker Richard V. Spencer Top Pick for SECNAV
Flag of the U.S. Secretary of the Navy
A former Marine aviator and investment banker is the top pick to be the next nominee for Secretary of the Navy, three defense officials familiar with the decision confirmed to USNI News today. Read More
Panel: Navy Must Invest In Counter-C4ISR, Unmanned Boats, Railgun To Prepare For Future Fight
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency tests its Sea Hunter unmanned vehicle — the technology demonstration vessel it designed, developed and built through its anti-submarine warfare continuous trail unmanned vessel program, or ACTUV — in Portland, Ore., prior to an April 7 commissioning ceremony. DARPA photo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If the Navy wants to pursue the key tenets of three recently completed Future Fleet Architecture studies – a distributed and networked fleet that relies on unmanned vehicles and electromagnetic warfare tools to survive and win in a highly contested environment – it will need to quickly invest in technologies that allow U.S. forces to complete a targeting faster and stop the enemy from doing so at all, lead participants from the three studies told lawmakers. Read More
STRATCOM: Pentagon ‘Going Too Slow’ to Counter Commercial Drone Threats to Nuclear Sites
An Immersion Vortex 250 drone collides with the end of the spray from a water cannon, part of the counter-unmanned aerial system solution. US Air Force Photo
The military is moving too slowly to protect U.S. nuclear sites from the threat of commercial unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, the commander of the Pentagon’s strategic forces told lawmakers on Wednesday. Read More
