UPDATED: SECDEF Carter Outlines New Budget That Supports Future High-End Fight
This post has been updated with additional information from Ash Carter’s presentation. WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Ash Carter will release…
Top Stories 2015: U.S. Navy Acquisition
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime…
Final FY 2016 Spending Bill Released; Funds Super Hornets, Growlers, Additional F-35s
The House and Senate appropriations committees released a final Fiscal Year 2016 spending plan that meets the new requirements of…
Destroyer Zumwalt Back at Bath Iron Works After First Set of Builders Trials
This post has been updated with an additional information and a statement from the Navy. The first-in-class guided missile destroyer…
VIDEO: Zumwalt Destroyer Underway
The following is a Dec. 7, 2015 video of the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG-1000) underway for the first time in the…
Zumwalt Destroyer Leaves Yard for First Set of Sea Trials
On Monday morning, the first-in-class Zumwalt-class destroyer left its pier at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, headed down Maine’s Kennebec…
Navy, Industry Working Through DDG-51 Flight III Detail Design; Draft RFP For Ship Construction Released
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Navy and two shipbuilders are moving forward with the Flight III upgrade to the Arleigh…
Delivery Schedule for Bath Iron Works Destroyers Under Navy Review, Further Delays Likely
The Navy is considering extending by several months the delivery dates for the first two restart General Dynamics Bath Iron…
House, Senate Armed Services Committees Agree to Support UCLASS, Additional Aircraft Procurement
The House and Senate armed services committees came to an agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year…
SECNAV Mabus, Maine Delegation Back Third Zumwalt Construction
PENTAGON — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and the Maine congressional delegation have thrown their support behind finishing the…