Navy’s Kilby signals USS Ford could see 11-month deployment, approaching record length
During the Vietnam era, the USS Midway set the record for longest at-sea deployment at 332 days.
Block buy of fifth, sixth Ford-class carriers could yield $5B in savings: Senior Navy official
The talk of a block buy will be welcome news to the industrial base, which has been lobbying the Pentagon for years to repeat the strategy it used for the third and fourth carriers in the class.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Navy quietly declares aircraft carrier Ford operational
It's a major event for the Navy's high-profile warship, and it happened silently in December.
New Pentagon report censors details on weapons programs’ performance, flaws
"By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.
EXCLUSIVE Eying China, CNO Plans Hypersonics & Lasers On Zumwalt Destroyers
"Take a look at what China's really investing in," Navy CNO Adm. Mike Gilday said. "Yes, they are putting more ships in the water, but they're investing heavily in anti-ship missiles as well as satellite systems to be able to target ships. And so I'm mindful of that."
Navy’s New Unmanned Plan To Build In Critical New Data-Sharing Effort
"What I was looking at when I first came into the job was a number of unmanned efforts that were on the way and not being necessarily coordinated," CNO Adm. Mike Gilday says.
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CNO: Shipbuilding Mistakes Could Mean ‘We May Not Be Able To Recover In This Century’
"I don't mean to be dramatic," said Navy CNO Adm. Mike Gilday, "but I feel like if the Navy loses its head, if we go off course and we take our eyes off those things we need to focus on, I think we may not be able to recover in this century."
Aboard USS Ford: More Weapons, More Launches, Faster & Safer
SOMEWHERE OFF THE EAST COAST: When our aging C-2 Greyhound aircraft took off from the USS Gerald R. Ford the experience was clearly different. Propelled by the electro-magnetic system that has replaced steam catapults it was much smoother and much quicker. The new launch and landing systems provide key tools for a significant reshaping of the […]
Bonhomme Richard Fire Forces Tough Choices On Navy and DoD
Whether the ship can be repaired is a question Pentagon leaders will grapple with in coming weeks, along with discussions over the US presence in the Pacific, and the Navy’s modernization schedule.
Navy Scraps Big Carrier Study, Clears Deck For OSD Effort
The study into what kind of carriers the Navy might need in a decade’s time was problematic from the start, and conflicted with the Pentagon senior leadership’s redo of the Navy’s force structure plan.
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Beyond The Ford: Navy Studies Next-Gen Carriers EXCLUSIVE
The Future Carrier 2030 Task Force, which the service will announce next week, will study how carriers stack up against new generations of stealthy submarines and long-range precision weapons being fielded by China and Russia.
USS Ford Plans New Aggressive Training Schedule At Sea
“The ship is kickass,” the ship's skipper said, extolling the new technologies that separate it from the current Nimitz-class carriers.
Ford Aircraft Carriers Not Ready For F-35s, So Aging Vinson Gets The Call
The long road the F-35 took to finally being ready to deploy has forced the Navy's new $13 billion carrier class to leave the plane behind -- for now at least.
SecNav Again Blasts Huntington Ingalls On Ford Carriers
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer continues to lay into aircraft carrier builder Huntington Ingalls, as his acquisition chief tries to smooth things over on Capitol Hill.