Megan Eckstein

If the Navy’s prime shipbuilders can’t bring enough workers to their facilities, they’re looking to outsource more work to manufacturers elsewhere.

Gen. Van Ovost would prefer to continue recapitalizing the nation’s sealift fleet with used vessels rather than design and build new ones.

The government may require commercial planes and ships conducting military lift operations to carry technology that lets them navigate and communicate.

The Navy will have 20 unmanned boats in the theater and expects regional partners to contribute 80 more to create a maritime domain awareness network.

The two services are closer to striking the right balance between keeping the cost low and including the right survivability features, a general says.

Documents obtained by Defense News reveal plans to decommission amphibious ships, despite an outcry from the Corps over the resulting capability gap.

A new task force will streamline command and control of amphibious and crisis response elements in the Indo-Pacific.

Operational availability is a top-level requirement for SSN(X), so the Navy is focused on creating a mature maintenance plan from the start.

Though the industrial base is already strained, the Navy may need to accelerate its purchase of submarine spare parts to address maintenance delays.