HASC Advances NDAA Authorizing 10 Ships, Creating SLCM-N Program
The House Armed Services Committee passed its annual defense policy bill early Thursday, authorizing the Navy to buy a total…
U.S. Maritime Industry Needs Better Business Case to Offer More Support to DoD, Says Panel
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The U.S. commercial maritime industry needs more business incentives to make changes that support the Defense…
MARAD Head ‘Not At All Confident’ Ready Reserve Fleet Could be Crewed in a Crisis
The head of the Maritime Administration “was not at all confident” that all the ships in the Ready Reserve Fleet…
Threats to Merchant Ships Growing; Mariners Face Pirates, Lethal Drones
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Electronic spoofing, jammed communications and navigation systems, armed drone attacks and pirates are challenges American crews…
TRANSCOM Rethinking Sealift in Future Conflict for New Study
A military mobility study due out in June will place a greater emphasis on smaller, lower-draft vessels that will ferry…
Navy, Marines Will Need Recapitalized Sealift, Logistics Capabilities to Succeed in Pacific Operations
The Navy and Marine Corps need to grow their capacity to move people and supplies to and around a contested…
Lawmakers Question MARAD on Sealift Readiness
Lawmakers were skeptical the Navy could meet its sealift requirements as part of the National Defense Strategy and that the…
Wittman Pushing Navy to Buy Used Cargo Ships
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) wants to know why the U.S. military’s surge sealift capability has yet to…
MARAD: National Military Sealift Strategy Expected Soon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A National Maritime Strategy, expected to address the various deficiencies facing the nation’s sealift capacity, is finished…
Report: U.S. Sealift Lacks Personnel, Hulls, National Strategy
An aging and inactive government fleet dependent on a shrinking pool of merchant mariners to get underway is how a…