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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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2011
Rich Smith
Huntington Ingalls: Swimming With Sharks Northrop set its stepchild adrift and laden with debt. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2011
Rich Smith
DDG Me, ASAP It's full-speed ahead for General Dynamics' new ship contracts. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles