The White House has also sent nominations over to the Senate for William Toti to serve as undersecretary of the Navy, and for retired Vice Adm. Richard Breckenridge as an assistant secretary of the Navy.
The new shipbuilding plan also confirmed that the Trump-class battleship will be nuclear-powered, and that the Navy wants an inventory of 15 battleships by 2056.
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
In a surprise move, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said John Phelan's departure was "effective immediately."
Navy Secretary John Phelan said the ongoing review is designed to make the original deal “better," to clear up some of the “ambiguity” and be a “win-win for everybody.”
The heavy reliance on reconciliation to fund staple shipbuilding programs has rubbed both senior Republican and Democratic lawmakers the wrong way.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., criticized a dip of billions in the base budget, saying the administration was counting on reconciliation funds, ignoring "congressional intent."
Lightning Surge exercises are turning soldier feedback on NGC2 into operational software changes in days, not years.
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan manages the readiness, development, and well-being of nearly one million Sailors, Marines, and civilian personnel within the Department of the Navy.
Russell Rumbaugh in this op-ed lays out some of the challenges Navy Secretary John Phelan is up against in his quest for the Navy to have a clean audit.
"We cannot wait," Rep. Ken Calvert said. "Further, we cannot expect to grow the defense industrial base by undermining it."