Top Stories 2015: Foreign Defense Acquisition
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime…
Top Stories 2015: U.S. Navy Operations
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime…
Carter’s Rebuke of Navy Budget Proposal Points to Split Between Service, DoD Priorities
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s list of directives Monday to the Navy to retool its budget for Fiscal Year 2017…
Document: Budget Directive Letter from SECDEF Carter to SECNAV Mabus
The following is the Dec. 14, 2015 letter from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Secretary of the Navy Ray…
SECDEF Carter Directs Navy to Cut Littoral Combat Ship Program to 40 Hulls, Single Shipbuilder
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has ordered the Navy to trim its total buy of Littoral Combat Ships to 40…
First Round of Navy Recommendations for Personnel Reform Ready for Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy’s initial set of recommendations to Congress to modify personnel legislation – along with the other…
Document: Report to Congress on Women in Combat
The following is the Dec. 3, 2015 Congressional Research Service report, Women in Combat: Issues for Congress.…
U.S. to Deploy Navy P-8A Poseidon Aircraft to Singapore
Singapore has given the go-ahead for U.S. Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft to operate out of its airbases…
Document: SECDEF Carter’s Implementation Guidance to Include Women in All Military Positions
The following is the Dec. 3, 2015 memorandum from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Pentagon leaders outlining the implementation…
SECDEF Carter: All Military Specialties Will Be Open To Women, Marine Objections Overruled
All military occupational specialties in all four services — including infantry and special operations forces — will be available to women…