“I know he really cares about it, and having him in the White House as the National Security Advisor, in my view is a very positive thing,” Sen. Mark Kelly said of the bill’s first cosponsor, Rep. Mike Waltz.
By Valerie Insinna
“I don’t see us building destroyers in Philadelphia,” Hanwha Defense USA CEO Mike Smith said. “I do see us building the fleet the Navy needs next.”
By Valerie Insinna
Three years after the fall of Kabul, the US Navy is helping to fund several training programs recruiting Afghan immigrants to work for the nation’s ailing shipbuilding industry.
By Valerie Insinna
Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she “wouldn’t commit” to such a dramatic jump in spending as floated by Sen. Roger Wicker, but she “certainly welcome[s] that conversation.”
By Colin Clark
Both plans would shrink the fleet to 280 ships by fiscal 2027, then grow them back from there to a high of 387 ships if one of the options is followed.
By Michael Marrow
In this op-ed, Bryan Clark lays out potential topics of discussion at this year’s Indo-Pacific Exposition in Sydney, Australia, such as the future of AUKUS.
By Bryan Clark
Capability exists to simulate the future of kill chains at theater scale
A tool to explore what-if scenarios and tradeoffs at the theater-level faster than traditional analysis.
Long-range missiles, missile defenses, and robotic ships will be essential adjuncts to the big, expensive “Death Stars” that dominate the Navy budget, says Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute.
By Bryan Clark
The service is offering lawmakers three different ship procurement profiles, a deviation from past long-range plans.
By Justin Katz
“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
The Democrats’ draft bill trims military personnel and R&D to add money for procurement.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. “The President’s Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point,” emphasizes Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
By using proven technology, the frigate program is trying to prevent the kind of high-tech teething troubles that bedeviled the Ford-class carrier and Littoral Combat Ships.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The deal reinforces the company’s commitment to developing a sustainable knowledge and innovation-based economy in line with the UAE’s Vision 2030, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ship Building told Breaking Defense.
By Chyrine Mezher
In this op-ed, John Ferrari of AEI argues the Pentagon needs to stop creating and rearranging offices for procurement and lays out what they should do instead.
By John Ferrari