“While China is on track to reach a 420-ship by 2035, we are struggling to stay on track with our 355-ship Navy shipbuilding plan,” Rep. Rob Wittman says in an email. “A decrease in the shipbuilding account is the opposite direction we need to be going if we are to compete.”
By Paul McLearyEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
“When the services say that 2022 is really the year of NDS implementation, they are putting lipstick on a pig,” says one analyst.
By Paul McLeary and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Acting Navy Secretary Modly wants to reach a 355 ship fleet in 10 years. His CNO is more skeptical: “355 in 10? Sure, if we get the dough.”
By Paul McLeary
The admiral in charge of building the future fleet says while he doesn’t know how many ships the Navy needs, he’s certain it will look vastly different from today’s fleet.
By Paul McLeary
The Navy is pushing full-speed ahead, and its acquisition chief said the service is prepared to make other programs pay to keep on track.
By Paul McLeary
Richard Spencer was taking no prisoners in remarks today, accusing Congress of failing to fund his plans and spreading “disinformation” about shipbuilding programs.
By Paul McLeary
New Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
Senate Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on using DoD money for the border wall — so far that the government might not gets its 2020 budget on time,
By Paul McLeary
The company that has experienced slip-ups in delivering missile tubes to the Navy might leave the business, leaving only a single company who can do the work.
By Paul McLeary
“It would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships,” the new USMC Commandant writes in his new guidance, setting decades of planning on its head. So what’s next?
By Paul McLeary
The Navy is looking to get a new class of frigates in the water as soon as possible, but the budget wrangling between Congress and the White House might mean that gets put on hold.
By Paul McLeary
The Navy’s new $13 billion carrier has run into trouble, and the Navy has called in some outside help.
By Paul McLeary
The $750 billion defense policy bill sticks with the administration’s topline, but huge fights loom with the House version. Prepare for a long, hot summer.
By Paul McLeary
House Democrats release a 2020 defense policy bill that requires the Pentagon to write plenty of reports, but eases away from the HASC Chairman’s earlier remarks on nuclear modernization.
By Paul McLeary
Planning for a 21st century Navy of unmanned vessels, distributed operations, and great power competition has collapsed. Trapped by a 355-ship force goal, a reduced budget, and a fixed counting methodology, the Navy can’t find a feasible solution to the difficult question of how its forces should be structured. As a result, the Navy postponed…
By Mark Cancian and Adam Saxton