DDG 1000 Christening Pioneers New Technology The Navy's first high-tech Zumwalt-class DDG 1000 destroyer will pioneer a handful of yet-to-be seen destroyer technologies...
Navy Sees 3D Printing Aboard Ships in Future A U.S. Navy carrier in the perhaps not too distant future will have the ability to create everything from replacement parts...
Struggle Ahead to Reach 8-Month Sea Deployments In an era of tight budgets, the Navy will face many challenges to to cut down the time at sea for sailors.
Admiral: Crimea Proves Nuclear Subs Still Needed Navy leaders said Monday the U.S. can't afford to delay the Ohio-class submarine Replacement Program as China and Russia...
Navy Wants More Ships to Expand Mobile Sea Basing Navy and Marine Corps leaders see mobile, off-shore bases as the key to responding to short-fuse contingency operations.
Navy Plans to Test Fire Railgun at Sea in 2016 The Navy will fire its electromagnetic railgun from a joint high speed vessel in 2016 as part of a broader effort to develop...
Carrier Refueling Yanked From Unfunded Priorities Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert made the decision to pull $796 million in line item funding to refuel the...
Navy Unlikely to Reach 300-Ship Fleet by 2020 The budget pressures from sequestration offer serious complications for the Navy's goal of reaching a 300-ship fleet in...
SecNav: More Ships, Forward Basing on Horizon Despite a new round of defense spending cuts on the horizon, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said he has no plans to scale back...
Navy Wants to Return Well Decks to Amphib Fleets After years of believing the Navy would be getting entirely away from ships with well decks -- and designing them with that...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...