The Pentagon’s efforts to improve U.S. force posture in the Pacific have yielded a flurry of major agreements, with allies motivated by China's behavior.
The Pentagon’s efforts to improve U.S. force posture in the Pacific have yielded a flurry of major agreements, with allies motivated by China's behavior.
The Navy has gaps in its repair capacity and its supply base capacity. Austal has two production lines in need of work, after some shipbuilding programs were delayed. The company says it can adjust to meet Navy near-term needs in a mutually beneficial way.
Two 7th Fleet-based destroyers that don't have their own helicopters will get to leverage Textron UAVs instead, to give the ships an organic air search capability.
The CH-53K is through all its required testing scenarios and is working through ticking off the final boxes before the Marine Corps can declare it operational.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro says ships that can’t combat threats to the service are dead weight — comments that come as the force seeks to decommission 24 ships next fiscal year.
“We have 15 years of track record that proves that the current approach to cybersecurity, driven by a checklist mentality, is wrong,” says Aaron Weis, the service's chief information officer. “It doesn’t work.”
The two top lawmakers on the HASC seapower subcommittee want to continue LPD amphibious ship construction, which the Marine Corps supports but the Navy wants to cancel.
The Navy and Marines say "campaigning forward," or being a constant presence where the enemy wants to be operating, will be an effective deterrent against Chinese aggression.
A modular approach to laser weapon development that encourages companies to specialize in individual subsystems rather than the whole integrated product could help the Pentagon expand the industrial base for these kinds of future weapons technologies.