SECDEF Esper Extends Pentagon ‘Stop Movement’ Order Until Late June
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has signed a stop movement order that halts most Department of Defense travel until June…
SECDEF Esper: Summer PCS Moving Season Still Possible
The Pentagon is grappling with how to start the summer permanent change of station season — when roughly a quarter…
Report to Congress on Navy Force Structure
The following is the April 1, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues…
Report to Congress on Navy Force Structure
The following is the March 25, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues…
Navy Adapts Medical Care Around COVID-19 Threat
The Navy is trusting lower-level unit commanders to develop plans that both balance mission readiness with reducing the risk of…
UPDATED: SECDEF Esper: Hospital Ship Comfort to New York in Less Than 14 Days
This post has been updated to include information from a press briefing by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly…
Trump: Hospital Ship Comfort to go to New York City, Mercy Set for West Coast Support
This post has been updated with a statement from the Navy. THE PENTAGON — The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort…
Modly: Parallel Fleet Studies Could Reshape Future of Aircraft Carriers
THE PENTAGON – The Navy has taken several cracks over the years at trying to define a new future aircraft…
Lawmakers Still Lack Details on Pentagon Shipbuilding Plan
Two senior lawmakers said they don’t have enough information to evaluate the Trump administration’s “hard rudder turn” on its shipbuilding…
CNO, Commandant Asking for Fleet Wholeness Amid Pause in Future Force Structure Planning
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy and Marine Corps are caught in a battle with Pentagon leadership over the right…