Electronic Warfare Executive Committee to Focus on Strategy, Acquisition
The Pentagon’s new Electronic Warfare (EW) Executive Committee was created this week to refocus the services on matters of EW…
Sea Services Need to Evolve Manning, Operating, Partnering to Support Seapower Strategy
The sea services cannot buy their way to successfully implementing the Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, the service chiefs…
Battle Over How to Count Navy Ships is Confusing, But Not New
Lawmakers and Navy leadership spent the past year going back and forth over how to count the number of ships in…
CNO Greenert: Navy Could Fix Readiness Shortfall by 2020 if Sequestration is Avoided
Navy leadership hopes to have a surge force of three Carrier Strike Groups (CSG) and three Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG)…
PEO LCS Begins At Sea Testing of Modified Longbow Hellfire Missile
The Program Executive Office for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) began a series of tests on its modified Longbow Hellfire missile…
Navy Ups Its Fleet Size Goal to 308 Ships By Fiscal Year 2020
Adm. Jonathan Greenert - The Navy has increased its force structure goal by two ships, saying it would like to…
Marines Considering New Platforms to Extend Africa Reach, Including the Gulf of Guinea
The Marines are looking to employ new types of ships to extend the reach of special crisis response units into…
Navy Taps Industry in Quest For Next Generation Fighter
The U.S. Navy has formally asked the defense industry to participate in a series of exchanges to provide technical insights…
India Commissions First in New Class of Stealthy Destroyer
India’s first modern guided missile destroyer formally entered the fleet on Saturday in a formal commissioning ceremony — three years…
U.S. Edges Out Russia To Become India’s Largest Military Equipment Vendor
In the last three years, the U.S. has surpassed Russia as the number one military vendor to India, Defence Minister…