Naval Warfare
The Compact Rapid Attack Weapon will produce one of the first new torpedoes introduced to the Navy’s fleet in decades.
By Justin KatzTo facilitate the pivot to the Great Power competition against adaptive enemies with advanced capabilities, the Navy is developing the flexibility to decentralize its forces while remaining fully networked.
By Barry RosenbergThe Navy wants to hire an industry partner for its Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab, or RAIL, office.
By Justin KatzThe new policy comes as a result of the loss of the Bonhomme Richard in July 2020.
By Justin KatzAs the importance of oceans, coastlines, economic exclusion zones and sovereign waters increases, countries are faced with a crucial problem.
By Sierra Nevada CorporationThe company is anticipating a contract later this year for work associated with backfitting Flight IIA destroyers.
By Justin Katz“We were able to … create new software and put new communication waveforms through the system and demonstrate a class a wave forms it could be critical to the Navy as they look at Project Overmatch,” said Mike Meaney, a Northrop Grumman official.
By Justin KatzThe new era of seapower requires new approaches and new tools for the U.S. military and its allies.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.“The Navy’s going to have a huge problem,” Mark Cancian, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said of the service’s likely budget squeeze.
By Justin Katz“We’ve got FFG-62. We’re going to have another DDG variant at some point and then we’ve got the unmanned stuff. How do I introduce it to the fleet? What does that look like?” said Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the service’s top surface warfare officer.
By Justin KatzA senior Navy admiral says the service is “pretty good” at firefighting at sea, but conceded “education” and “spot checking” is necessary at the shipyards.
By Justin KatzThe Navy recently completed a 3-week at-sea testing period for MCM USV and are awaiting the results before moving forward with a full-rate production contract.
By Justin Katz
The combination of a modern long-range bomber (the H-20), and an expanded seaborne ballistic missile force, as well as this massive inflation of the land-based ICBM component, makes China’s nuclear forces look far more like their “hegemonic” counterparts in Russia and the United States than the minimal or limited deterrent presented by French or British nuclear forces.
By Dean Cheng