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National Defense December 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Augmented Reality Could Help Solve Ford-Class Carrier Cost Woes Executives at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, the Huntington Ingalls division that is constructing the Navy's next-generation Ford-class supercarriers, said new technology employing digital design and construction could help reduce labor hours and lower acquisition costs for the program  |
National Defense May 2005 Sandra Erwin |
Shipbuilding Strategy Makes Sure Bet on Uncertain Future War-strained Pentagon budgets, rising shipbuilding costs and inconsistent messages by the Navy's leadership are conspiring to bring about what could be a dramatic downsizing in the Navy.  |
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 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.  |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Rich Smith |
Why Does the U.S. Navy Hate JFK? Poor Huntington-Ingalls. Just four months after its parent company set it adrift, it's already wallowing in debt and burning cash. And now it seems Northrop Grumman abandoned this shipbuilder not a moment too soon.  |
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Navy Needs to Consider 'Ownership' Costs, Yard Official Says For every dollar the Navy spends on buying a new ship, it pays an average of two dollars to operate and maintain the vessel throughout its 35-year service life.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2011 Rich Smith |
Huntington Ingalls: Swimming With Sharks Northrop set its stepchild adrift and laden with debt.  |
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 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 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Seeks to Avert Precipitous Decline in the Size of the Fleet An ambitious Navy plan to expand the size of the fleet not only assumes a considerable surge in spending, but also a fundamental shift in the preparation and execution of ship programs, senior officials say.  |
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy on a Mission to Cut the Cost of Aviation Expectations of a smaller force and leaner budgets set the tone for an ongoing, sweeping review of Navy aviation programs -- in favor of its shipbuilding plan.  |
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Technology Roadmap Calls For No-Nonsense Research Far from being disconnected from the practical concerns of deployed forces, Navy scientists are making it their business to be attuned to the demands of sailors and Marines.  |
National Defense November 2006 Grace Jean |
Navy Leaders to Articulate Current and Future Missions Recent efforts by the Navy to deploy forces for ground combat and engage in other non-traditional duties are signs that the service intends to be relevant in the U.S. war on terrorism.  |
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean |
Undersea Combat Simulators Needed, Navy Says The Navy is worried about quiet diesel-electric submarines that are proliferating around the world and particularly in the western Pacific. But officials say the bigger challenge is training sailors to find and engage those submarines.  |
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 May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.  |
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 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 September 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell |
In the Navy, Research Sails Forward Like the other military services, the Navy is undergoing a transformation in its war-fighting concepts, tactics and strategy. For the Navy, this means turning more attention to littoral areas and preparing to conduct a broad array of unconventional anti-terrorism operations.  |
National Defense September 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Costs, Delays Surface Again for New Attack Submarines Just a year after U.S. Navy officials assured Congress that they had taken steps to stem rising costs and production delays for the newest family of nuclear-powered attack submarines, they now concede that problems may not have gone away.  |
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 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 June 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Challenges Loom Large in the 2020s Builders of U.S. Navy ships are attempting to rein in costs that have doubled over the last 20 years.  |
National Defense April 2013 Stew Magnuson |
When It Comes to the Navy's Destroyers, It's a Numbers Game Providing the coverage the Navy believes it needs to patrol the world's oceans is being made more complicated by a chronic shortage of destroyers, analysts have said.  |
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 December 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Simulated Warfare Gets Real for Ground Troops At a test range at Marine Corps Base Quantico, troops prepared for battle. Helicopters flew overhead, tanks roamed the field and the echoes of artillery fire could be heard. These threats, however, were simulated.  |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Rich Smith |
DDG Me, ASAP It's full-speed ahead for General Dynamics' new ship contracts.  |
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 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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
U.S. Navy Officials Announce Milestones During Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition U.S. Navy officials revealed several firsts at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, including the acceptance and deployment of two new minesweeping warships and the debut of a research-and-development center.  |
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean |
In the Navy's Forecast, a Shrinking Attack Submarine Fleet The Navy faces a 23-year period when the number of attack submarines in the fleet falls below the desired 48 ships.  |
National Defense September 2011 Fumiko Hedlund |
Navy to Invest $100 Million In STEM Education The Navy will increase its investment in science, technology, engineering and math education programs from $54 million to $100 million, Secretary of the Navy Raymond Mabus recently announced.  |
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.  |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Rich Smith |
Northrop Tosses Huntington Ingalls Overboard By getting itself out of Huntington, its nuclear aircraft carrier- and submarine-building business, did Northrop set investors adrift in a leaky boat?  |
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 May 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Jury Still Out on Future of Littoral Combat Ship The Navy's littoral combat ship is under fire by lawmakers who are threatening to pull the plug at a time when the Obama administration is prepared to commit long-term funding to the program.  |
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Will Have 25,000 Fewer Sailors by 2007 With retention rates at an all-time high, the U.S. Navy is trying to figure out how to go about downsizing its ranks by 25,000 people while simultaneously upgrading sailors' skills.  |
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy's Revised Strategy to Emphasize `Global Partnerships' In its soon-to-be-unveiled strategy for future maritime operations, the Navy will emphasize the importance of international partnerships and global naval presence.  |
National Defense May 2007 Grace Jean |
Recruits Virtually Experience the High-Tech Navy With sophisticated warships poised to enter its fleet during the next several years, the Navy is relying more and more on technology to train sailors.  |
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean |
China's Defense Build-up Merits Closer Attention From Navy, Say Analysts China has been beefing up its military might, and the rapid growth of its navy, in particular, is creating disagreements in the Defense Department over whether such a build-up ought to be perceived as a threat to U.S. interests in the Pacific.  |
National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Trident Program Intent On Avoiding Past Shipbuilding Pitfalls As the Navy begins to design its next ballistic-missile submarine, officials caution that the service must avoid shipbuilding practices of the past that have led to cost overruns and delays.  |
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean |
Littoral Combat Ship Could Slip Behind Schedule as Price Tag Nears $500 Million In the midst of a contentious debate about the Navy's embattled littoral combat ship program, the service's coveted warship has come under fire by its own supporters on Capitol Hill.  |
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 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  |
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.  |
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Seeks More Control of its Expansive Computer Network Some 700,000 sailors, marines and civilians spread out across the United States, Japan and Puerto Rico rely on the Navy's intranet every day.  |
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 December 2004 Michael Peck |
Personalized Instruction Matches Sailors With Jobs A new Navy system that relies on individualized training instead of rigid classroom instruction will produce better-qualified sailors more quickly, according to the admiral in charge of the program.  |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Adm. Roughead: Shipbuilding Not a Broken Industry The chief of naval operations ensures the public that innovation is being used to develop new navy vessels.  |