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.
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.
The Navy wants to decommission 24 ships in 2023. Eight are at the end of their planned lives, but 16 would be retired early and will require a waiver and congressional approval.
The Navy awarded Raytheon a contract worth up to $3.16 billion to provide radars for as many as 31 destroyers, frigates, aircraft carriers and amphibious ships over the next five years.
Over the past three years, the U.S. Navy has tightened its budget and changed its requirements, making the future look far less rosy for a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.
The Alabama shipyard is ahead of schedule in converting its manufacturing facilities to build steel ships. The challenge now: finding a steel ship contract to bid on.
The U.S. Navy already has the JPALS precision landing system on its carriers and amphibious assault ships -- but the more allies that have the system, the more options open up for future operations.
The fifth of six pieces of the LCS's mine countermeasures mission package is through testing, paving the way for integration mission package testing and certification for operations in 2022.