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Maritime Security
June 2019
Navy Shipbuilding Plan Could Soon Be Tossed Overboard
By Jon HarperThe Navy’s new 30-year shipbuilding plan is intended to send a strong demand signal and pro-vide predictability for the industrial base. However, trends that are informing a new force structure assessment could soon upend the blueprint. -
Navy News
May 2019
Superconductors to be Installed on Navy Vessels
By Connie LeeTwo of the Navy’s amphibious transport docks are scheduled to receive degaussing systems with superconductors. -
Maritime Security
May 2019
NEWS FROM SEA-AIR-SPACE: Navy Hopes to Avoid Complications as It Builds Two Types of Submarines
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Development of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is still on track, but the real test will come in five years when the service is producing two different types of subs at the same time, a senior Navy official said May 7. -
Maritime Security
March 2019
Incoming: Can Aircraft Carriers Survive Hypersonic Weapons?
By Jon HarperA Chinese bomber flying over the Western Pacific launches hypersonic anti-ship missiles. -
Maritime Security
March 2019
BREAKING: Coast Guard to Issue Polar Security Cutter Contract in ‘Spring’
The Coast Guard will issue its first construction contract for the long-awaited polar security cutter icebreaker program in the “spring,” Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karly Shultz announced March 21 during the annual state-of-the-Coast Guard speech in Long Beach, California. -
Navy News
March 2019
Industry Touts Advanced Power Systems for Navy Ships
Defense contractors are investing in alternative propulsion and power systems as the Navy develops and upgrades its fleet of warships. -
Shipbuilding
March 2019
BREAKING: New Trump Budget Cuts Navy Shipbuilding, Aircraft Procurement
President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request would increase the Navy’s overall budget but cut back on its shipbuilding and aircraft procurement accounts, according to documents released March 12. Despite that, however, the service would procure 12 new battle force ships in fiscal year 2020. -
Navy News
February 2019
JUST IN: Navy Mulling New Contracting Mechanisms for Maintenance Programs
The Navy is considering implementing new contracting mechanisms that it could offer to shipyards to improve maintenance schedules as it works toward a 355-ship fleet, the commander of Naval Sea Systems Command said Feb. 19. -
Navy News
February 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Top Navy Officer Vows to Fix Gerald Ford Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Woes
By Connie LeeThe Navy plans to rein in problems with the Gerald Ford-class nuclear aircraft carrier prior to building additional ships under a two-carrier buy, the service’s chief said Feb. 1. -
Maritime Security
January 2019
More National Security Cutters on the Way
By Jon HarperHuntington Ingalls’ shipbuilding division has been awarded contracts to build two more national security cutters for the Coast Guard.
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