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National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Navy Rethinks How It Maintains Surface Combatants Facing readiness problems in surface combatants, the Navy is redoubling its efforts to improve fleet maintenance.  |
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy |
No Crews Required: Unmanned Vessels Hit the Waves The Navy is experimenting with a new pair of sleek-looking unmanned surface vehicles designed to deploy from on its future Littoral Combat Ship -- a small, fast vessel being designed for coastal warfare.  |
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean |
What It Will Take for the Navy to Deploy a 'Green' Carrier Strike Group Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced with much fanfare plans to deploy a "green" carrier strike group in 2016.  |
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams |
SATCOM Hardware Will Be Downsized on Navy Ships The Navy wants to consolidate seven SATCOM programs into two: the Naval Multiband Terminal and a commercial broadband service, known as CBSP.  |
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
As the Cost of Sailors Rises, Navy Finds Ways to Get Them Off Ships Navy ships in the future may go to sea with fewer, but perhaps happier sailors.  |
National Defense November 2011 Eric Beidel |
Navy Brings Smartphones Aboard Carriers The service members will be able to use the phones to navigate their way around a carrier, as well as locate and track anyone on the ship in real time, officials said.  |
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Navy Rethinking Mine Warfare Navy officials are now warning that potential adversaries such as China are viewing sea-mines as a viable weapon to deny access to U.S. vessels.  |
National Defense February 2007 Erwin & Jean |
Pentagon's African Command: Will It Float? While Pentagon officials fine-tune plans to create a new military command to oversee Africa, Navy leaders are floating a proposal to base that command's headquarters on a ship at sea.  |
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Navy Surface Fleet Faces Rough Waters Trying to Maintain Ships The service is trying to revamp its maintenance policies to include more inspections, new technology and a shift in culture. They will likely have to deal with budget cuts that make it more difficult to maintain ships, Navy and industry officials said.  |
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Marines Eye Littoral Combat Ship for Future Missions The increased demand for naval support in coastal areas, meanwhile, is creating a growing demand for ships that are even smaller than the LCS  |
Popular Mechanics February 4, 2010 Benjamin Chertoff |
The Navy's New, Digital-Age Flagship in a Box To meet the new demands of a cost-conscious Department of Defense, US Naval designers have created the Deployable Joint Command and Control System, or DJC2-MV: basically, it's a flagship in a box.  |
National Defense July 2010 |
Navy Looking at Lasers to Defend Ships From Enemy Aircraft The Navy recently tested commercial welding lasers and has proven that the beams are capable of knocking small planes out of the sky.  |
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats.  |
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control.  |
National Defense March 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Middle East Turmoil Disrupts Navy's Ship Maintenance Plan Despite the fact that the Navy has come up with new maintenance plans, actors like the Islamic State -- also known as ISIL or ISIS -- may compromise its ability to get ships repaired on schedule.  |
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Ship Numbers for Asia-Pacific Shift Don't Add Up The Defense Department's strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region has gone hand in hand with a budget crunch, which in turn may test the Navy's ability to maintain a sufficient number of ships to carry out a global mission, analysts said.  |
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Carrier Overhaul The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the Navy's oldest nuclear aircraft carrier -- just back from the war in Iraq -- is undergoing a $200 million overhaul that will help her last at least another decade. The work is being done at the Northrop Grumman Newport News, Va., shipyard.  |
National Defense April 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Littoral Combat Ship to Share Duties with Coast Guard On her maiden deployment, the Navy's first littoral combat ship is carrying a surface warfare package that includes maritime security boats, boarding team equipment and berthing modules.  |
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Ship Construction Costs Endanger Navy's Fleet Expansion With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet.  |
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Sparks Speculation, Concern Designed to be launched from land and strike a moving ship at sea by employing a maneuverable reentry vehicle during a regional conflict, it has been called a "game changing weapon."  |
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Navy Probes Commercial Ship Operators for Repair Tips In its quest to preserve and prolong the life of its surface ships, the Navy is seeking to take advantage of technologies and practices resident in the commercial shipping world.  |
National Defense November 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Naval Aviators Can Be Slow to Embrace Technology Flight-control software that makes carrier deck landings easier and safer was not initially well received by the Navy's fighter pilot community.  |
National Defense May 2008 Grace Jean |
New Ships are Breaking The Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones The ballooning costs of new ships are forcing the Navy to extend the service life of dozens of surface combatants that typically would have been decommissioned.  |
National Defense August 2009 Jason Jacks |
Navy Looks To New Hull Coating to Keep Barnacles at Bay The Office of Naval Research is developing a new hull coating that the Navy hopes will reduce the build-up of barnacles and other crustaceans on ships' hulls.  |
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Downsizing Force to Pay for New Ships The desired expansion of the fleet--from 292 to about 375 ships--would be financed largely with cutbacks in personnel.  |
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Greater Demand for 'Soft Power' Reveals Shortfalls in The Navy They seek naval expertise in nontraditional missions such as training foreign navies to protect their coastlines.  |
National Defense October 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Website Lets Sailors Suggest Solutions Operating under the name Tech Solutions, the $10 million-a-year project is intended to let the science and technology community get first-hand reports from the fleet on their equipment needs and quality-of-life issues.  |
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Technology Spending Will Target Current and Future Navy Fleet The Navy should direct its future science, research and technology spending to both improving the current fleet and designing next-generation systems, officials say.  |
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean |
Navy Must Close Budget Gap To Build Future Fleet Amid budget constraints and rising shipbuilding costs, the Navy faces a significant challenge in building its future force, according to naval analysts.  |
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Carrier Flight Decks Will Have `Pit Stops' for Navy Fighter Jets A new aircraft carrier that is scheduled to enter service during the next decade will offer a radically different approach to servicing and prepping fighter jets.  |
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Communication Options for Sailors at Sea For all the sophisticated systems and weapons to be found aboard naval warships, there is one fundamental area where technology has been trailing: communications over and under the seas.  |
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.  |
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission  |
National Defense March 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Builders of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Pull Out All the Stops When the Navy later this year picks a winner to build its littoral combat ship, no matter which contractor is selected, the decision will be seen as a turning point for the troubled program.  |
National Defense February 2006 Grace Jean |
Truman Turns Into Virtual Playground for Navy Crews The Navy is investigating whether a video game that replicates operations aboard an aircraft carrier can help train ship and aviation crews.  |
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Efforts to Deploy Sea Bases Could Draw Lessons From Special Warfare As the U.S. military attempts to develop the technology and doctrine that will allow it to launch and sustain missions solely from the sea, special operations forces have been carrying out such operations on a smaller scale for more than two decades, according to a top Navy official.  |
National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Submariners Going 'Back to Basics' The Navy struggles to adequately train mariners to use the technology aboard ships and submarines.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 |
U.S. Navy Destroyers Enhance Situational Awareness The Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), part of the Naval Sea Systems Command, is charged with developing, evaluating, and deploying new technologies to updates its Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers.  |
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.  |
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce.  |
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons |
Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship.  |
National Defense August 2007 Dave Chesebrough |
Association Leaders Experience Life Aboard the 'Big E' A recent visit to the USS Enterprise became an unforgettable experience for the presidents of the National Training and Simulation Association and the Association for Enterprise Integration.  |
National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner |
All-Electric Ship Could Begin to Take Shape By 2012 As part of an ambitious technology plan for the Navy fleet of the future, the Office of Naval Research is exploring ways to power all-electric ships.  |
National Defense September 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Duty Aboard the Littoral Combat Ship: 'Grueling but Manageable' The Navy will soon decide which version of the Littoral Combat Ship it will buy. Selecting the ship model, however, is only the beginning of what could be a long, arduous adjustment for sailors who will be serving aboard these new vessels.  |
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots.  |
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel |
Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.  |
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December.  |
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Littoral Combat Ship Sets Sail on First Deployment As the littoral combat ship USS Freedom sets out for Singapore this spring, Navy officials are hoping a smooth first deployment will finally prove the ship's worth to critics.  |
National Defense July 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Contractors Vying to Build Ship-Launched Drone AeroVironment and Northrop Grumman are jockeying for the chance to build a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial system that can launch off the decks of small ships.  |
National Defense December 2011 Anand Datla |
Russian Navy Ponders Investments In Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships The Russian navy recently announced plans to build either a nuclear powered destroyer or cruiser -- depending on translation -- by 2016.  |