NASA and Navy Test Capsule Recovery Plan
The Navy and NASA conducted tests this week in Norfolk, Va. to prove that a San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious warship…
NAVSEA: USS Anchorage Completes Final Contractor Trials
The latest San Antonio-class amphibious warship (LPD-17) has completed its final round of contractor trials, Naval Sea Systems Command announced…
Opinion: Build New Ships Based on San Antonio Hull
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said last year: “We need to move from ‘luxury car’ platforms — with…
Document: Navy Ship Naming Conventions
From June, 12 2013 Congressional Research Service report: Navy Ship Names For ship types now being procured for the Navy, or…
Second Act for San Antonio?
Congress included $240 million for a 12th San Antonio-class amphibious warship (LPD-17), as part of the last minute, late March…
USMC Commandant: ‘You Can’t Surge Trust’
“We are not sure how that is going to play out,” the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps said about…
Opinion: Navy Should Avoid a Flight III Arleigh Burke
In a classified memo, the details of which were revealed last week in Defense News, Vice Adm. Tom Copeman, commander…
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…
HII CEO Mike Petters Talks Business
Mike Petters has been the chief executive officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries since the shipbuilder was spun off from Northrop…