USS Coronado Departs San Diego For First Independence-Variant LCS Deployment
USS Coronado (LCS-4) departs its San Diego homeport today for an extended maiden deployment in the western Pacific, making it…
Document: Report to Congress on Trans-Pacific Partnership
The following is the May 4, 2016 Congressional Research Service report, The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Key Provisions and Issues for Congress. …
The Philippines at Forefront of New Pentagon Maritime Security Initiative
The Pentagon recently began funding maritime security projects with countries in the South China Sea aimed at giving them the…
USS Fort Worth to Return to San Diego for Propulsion System Repairs
The Littoral Combat Ship USS Forth Worth (LCS-3) will return to San Diego to undergo repairs on the complex gearing…
Senators McCain, Reed Blast Littoral Combat Ship Development in Letter to Navy Leaders
The senior leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) took aim at almost every aspect of the Littoral Combat…
Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth Sidelined in Singapore with Propulsion System Damage
The Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) has been sidelined for an indefinite period in Singapore following a casualty…
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…
LCS Fort Worth Integrates Fire Scout UAV, RHIBs Into Bilateral Exercises For First Time
The Navy’s summer series of bilateral exercises in the Pacific gave the Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) a chance to…
China Warns U.S. Following Emergency Landing of Two Marine Hornets in Taiwan
China issued the U.S. a warning not to interfere with its relationship with Taiwan following the Wednesday emergency landing of…
USS Fort Worth LCS Chops to 7th Fleet
The Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Forth Worth (LCS-3) entered the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in the…