“We love this conveyor belt of the [carrier] strike group generation process,” Adm. Daryl Caudle said. “Submariners, we do not share that vision. Now there's a submariner at the helm here.”
“F/A-XX is so vital [because] our ability to fly with impunity with our existing airframes is fleeting,” Adm. Daryl Caudle warned.
Standoff capability means warfighters stay connected and remain remotely located in a safer environment while making it harder for adversaries to target them.
“We need to make a dent into that,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said of the Navy's 355-ship requirement. “I think the chairman, and I think the secretary of Navy and the secretary of War agree that that the Navy needs a budget commensurate with its mission set.”
A new big boss? A new big ship? 2025 held a lot of change for the sea services with even more foreshadowed coming in 2026 and beyond.
The competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman is the most highly anticipated contract outside the service's shipbuilding portfolio.
In its solicitation, the Defense Innovation Unit explicitly cited the border patrol mission that the White House has prioritized since taking office.
After manifesting 1,400 payloads aboard the ISS, Voyager is applying its mission management expertise to the next generation of space stations, ensuring uninterrupted mission readiness and success from the ground to space.
Navy gets submariner Adm. Daryl Caudle for CNO, Space Force gets Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton for vice chief of space ops and SOCOM gets JSOC's current head, Vice Adm. Frank Bradley.
Adm. Daryl Caudle characterized the USS Boise's story as "unacceptable" and a "dagger in my heart as a submarine officer."
The nominations follows Adm. Lisa Franchetti's removal from her post as the 33rd CNO more than two years earlier than planned.
“We have everybody on board getting to know each other and working on that synchronicity that’s required, and that’s really kind of the heart of COMPTUEX. This is a rehearsal, and we’re going to get it right,” says Capt. Rick Burgess, the Ford's commanding officer.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
The weapon is envisioned to protect Army bases and vehicles from small- to medium-sized drones.
“This is putting our toe in the water a bit to understand it, to make sure that we know how to employ this force. Is the return on investment for this level of capability going to return good, fruitful utilization of it?" said Adm. Daryl Caudle, US Fleet Forces Commander.
More Navy leaders as of late have been publicly bemoaning the service's inability to scale functional laser weapon systems.
US Fleet Forces chief Adm. Daryl Caudle said meetings with industry executives led to smoothing out the processes for certain production lines.