Mark D. Faram is a former reporter for Navy Times. He was a senior writer covering personnel, cultural and historical issues. A nine-year active duty Navy veteran, Faram served from 1978 to 1987 as a Navy Diver and photographer.
The combination punch of good news at the Senate Armed Services' Seapower Subcommittee included testimony that the Navy has recorded significant cost savings during the building of the John F. Kennedy, the next Ford-class carrier, and is prepping to purchase two similar flattops in Fiscal Year 2020.
Arguably the coolest looking boat in the military, the M80 Stiletto is actually a technology test bed than can showcase the best new technology to potential military end users.
Amid growing tension with North Korea, the U.S. Navy is surging a ballistic missile defense ship to the west Pacific after two catastrophic collisions this summer diminished the missile defense options there.
About 7,000 sailors of the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group 10 departed Naval Station Norfolk Wednesday, bound for the Middle East to join the mounting effort to destroy ISIS.