In this op-ed, Craig Fischbach and Kelly A. Grieco lay out three steps the administration should take to enhance shipbuilding cooperation: expand MRO, establish a mine countermeasures pact with Japan and outsource Arleigh-Burke production.
Ship counts were clearly on the mind of US Navy officials this year as they made numerous plays to bolster the fleet in novel ways.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
The decision follows a similar one last year to extend the service life of the Arleigh Burke (DDG-51).
The amendment to break congressionally-mandated spending caps, offered by Sen. Roger Wicker, the committee's top Republican, led SASC Chairman Jack Reed to vote against the bill.
The contract is part of a larger deal, cumulatively worth $3.2 billion, the Navy and Raytheon inked in 2022.
The ability of the SPY-6 family of radars to meet today’s new threats is due to both its modular and scalable hardware and its software-defined backbone.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
The ability to track smaller and faster objects at longer distances gives naval vessels more time to respond to incoming threats.
Building naval vessels with electric propulsion is a new challenge for shipyards, so “single-system vendors” will be needed to provide the electric propulsion package as a subcontractor to the shipyard.
The NDAA easily passed and now heads to the Senate.
A committee aide said the Navy is "playing a dangerous game" when it includes major battle force ships on its unfunded priority list.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
“We are going to do a live-fire offensive exercise,” Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, Carrier Strike Group 3 commander told reporters Tuesday. “We are going to use the unmanned surface, unmanned air, and manned air and surface to provide a targeting solution.”
"We've done about all we can do with this ship and we've maxed out the space, weight, power and cooling,” Rear Adm. Paul Schlise said. "It's time to reset to a new large surface combatant."
"We have ample margin for this hull form," said Capt. Kevin Smith, the Navy’s frigate program manager. "Some of those could lead to direct energy type projects and other capability. But right now, just as an example for weight, we have at least 100 tons of margin for future upgrades."
“I don’t want to build a monstrosity. But I need deeper magazines on ships than I have right now,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said today.