The roadmap for naval electrification

The roadmap for naval electrification
The roadmap for naval electrification

The US Navy answers questions about its roadmap for employing electric and battery power for lasers, radars, and propulsion over the next two decades.

Raytheon, Navy Finish SPY-6 Testing At Wallops

Raytheon, Navy Finish SPY-6 Testing At Wallops
Raytheon, Navy Finish SPY-6 Testing At Wallops

The company is anticipating a contract later this year for work associated with backfitting Flight IIA destroyers.

Raytheon Wins MDA Gallium Nitride Radar Deal: Companies Shift To GaN

Raytheon Wins MDA Gallium Nitride Radar Deal: Companies Shift To GaN
Raytheon Wins MDA Gallium Nitride Radar Deal: Companies Shift To GaN

ARLINGTON: Two recent contracts make clear the military radar industry is shifting to a new gold standard, a once-obscure material called Gallium Nitride. GaN, a high-efficiency semiconductor, makes radar transmitters much more powerful without using more electricity. Industry consultant Loren Thompson once told us it was “the biggest thing since silicon.” Just in time for…

Navy Seeks To Boost Shipbuilding: Amphibs, Subs, Destroyers

Navy Seeks To Boost Shipbuilding: Amphibs, Subs, Destroyers
Navy Seeks To Boost Shipbuilding: Amphibs, Subs, Destroyers

CAPITOL HILL: Despite tight budgets at the Pentagon, the Navy wants to speed-up several shipbuilding programs — amphibious warships, destroyers, and submarines — and Congress seems inclined to give them the money. That’s testimony both to the perennial political popularity of shipbuilding, which employs a lot of voters, and to the rising strategic anxiety over…

Top Tester Tells Navy To Test Carrier, Destroyer Defenses With Real Missiles & Explosions

Top Tester Tells Navy To Test Carrier, Destroyer Defenses With Real Missiles & Explosions
Top Tester Tells Navy To Test Carrier, Destroyer Defenses With Real Missiles & Explosions

You’d expect the nation’s top weapons tester to be a stickler about testing. But there’s “rigorous testing” and then there’s “let’s shoot cruise missiles at you and see what happens.” It’s not that the Navy is wimpy about testing. The service conducts “full-ship shock trials” like the USS Roosevelt test pictured above, where it sets off a…

Navy Bets On Arleigh Burkes To Sail Until 2072; 40 Years Afloat For Some

Tomorrow morning, at Manhattan’s Pier 88, the Navy will commission its newest destroyer, DDG-112. The USS Michael Murphy‘s namesake was uncompromisingly heroic, a Navy SEAL who died earning the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan. The ship itself, however, embodies a series of cost-conscious compromises that will keep the Navy sailing a 1980s design — albeit…