The following is a slide presentation from the Naval Sea Systems Command April 8, 2014 briefing on the progress of the Ohio-class Replacement Program for the Navy’s next-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN). Read More
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Navy Has Finalized Specifications for New Ohio-Replacement Boomer
An undated artist’s rendering of the Ohio Replacement. Naval Sea Systems Command Image
The Navy has completed the specifications and has set the length for its next generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine, the head of the Navy’s submarine construction program told attendees at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition 2014 at National Harbor, Md. on Monday. Read More
Navy Kicks Off LCS Follow-on Study
A Lockheed Martin concept for variations of the Freedom-class LCS design from corvette to Frigate sized hulls. Lockheed Martin Photo
The Navy has outlined its next steps in an Pentagon mandated efforts to create a new type of ship to follow the 32 planned Flight 0 Littoral Combat Ships, according to a March 13 letter signed by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Sean Stackley, the Navy’s chief weapons buyer. Read More
Hagel Defends Littoral Combat Ship Cap
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Department of Defense Comptroller Robert Hale testify before the House Armed Service Committee on March 6, 2014. Department of Defense Photo.
Defending the decision to cap the littoral combat ship (LCS) buy at 32, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday “it was a big, big question whether we want a sixth of our Navy” in those vessels. Read More
U.K. MoD Releases First Images of Royal Navy’s New Boomers
An artist’s conception of the U.K.’s Successor-class future planned ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) released Tuesday. UK Ministry of Defense Photo
The U.K. Ministry of Defense has published the first images of it’s next-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) — Successor-class as well as announced 79 million pounds ($129 million) in new contract awards. Read More
Document: PEO Subs Overview of U.S. Navy Undersea Programs
The following is an Oct. 24, 2013 series of slides presented by Rear Adm. David Johnson, Program Executive Officer Submarines at the Naval Submarine League Symposium in Falls Church, Va. Read More
Navy Protects Submarine Funding
Virginia-class submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN-778) in 2008. US Navy Photo
The U.S. Navy plans to fund two Fiscal Year 2014 Virginia-class submarines (SSN-774) in its worst-case budget scenario, a senior submarine leader said at a briefing at the Naval Submarine League Symposium in Falls Church, Va. on Wednesday. Read More
Navy: Service Must ‘Draw the Line’ to Prevent Cuts in Next Generation SSBN
An undated artist’s rendering of the Ohio Replacement. Naval Sea Systems Command
Navy officials said it was time to “draw the line” to prevent any further delay in the service’s bid to procure a replacement to its ballistic nuclear missile submarine fleet (SSBN) in comments to reporters following a Thursday hearing before the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee.
Document: Naval Power Roadmap
Naval Sea Systems Command’s Electric Ships Office released its May roadmap to develop improved electrical systems in the U.S. Navy’s current fleet and future ship designs. The document outlines the types of technologies available today and explores future concepts powering not only onboard systems but the drive trains of ships themselves. Read More
Opinion: U.S. Sub Suppliers at Risk From Foreign Competition
U.S. made parts in this Virginia-class submarine could be replaced by foreign components.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert has long warned of a decline in U.S. companies that provide critical components to the nation’s most technologically sophisticated hardware: nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers.
“I worry about the industrial base,” Greenert said at the Credit Suisse/McAllese Defense Programs Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 12. “Ninety percent of the industry that builds our nuclear components is single source. . . . It’s the second or third tier. It’s ‘Bob’s Nuclear Valve Shop.’” Read More
