V-22 Ospreys Heading To UK, Okinawa; Will Carry White House Press
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR: UPDATED: Israeli Air Force Flew In CV-22 When In US; UAE May Be First Foreign Sale Last week's crash in Morocco won't slow down the V-22 Osprey program, which in 2013...
View ArticleShrinking Coast Guard Must Cut Drug War To Boost Cyber, Arctic
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR, MD: The Coast Guard is shrinking and may have to cut back on traditional missions like fisheries protection and drug interdiction to free up resources for new issues...
View ArticleLCS Is Too A Real Warship, Insists SecNav
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR, MD: "The LCS is a warship and it is fully capable of going into combat situations," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus insisted to skeptical reporters yesterday. Mabus was...
View ArticleThis Is Going To Hurt, Acquisition Brass Warn At Sea-Air-Space
Filed under: SeaThis is going to hurt. That's the grim message to defense contractors and federal workers alike from top acquisitions brass in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who convened at...
View ArticleModular 'Trucks' Will Rule The Waves: CNO
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR, MD: Trucks, not sports cars - that's the Chief of Naval Operations' vision for an affordable and upgradeable future fleet. And that's good news for an array of...
View ArticleNavy Didn't Fudge Ship Numbers, UnderSec Work Says
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR, MD [updated 7:30 am Thursday 19 April with Congressional comment and Raymond Pritchett's retraction] : The smartest man in the Department of the Navy, Under Secretary...
View ArticleSoaring Costs Kill UK Carrier Retrofit; Switch Back To F-35B Likely
Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR, MD: Britain is the land of "the Lobby," a setup that grants an official group of reporters access to senior government officials -- including the Prime Minister -- but...
View ArticleSequester Will Slam Shipbuilding Hardest; Navy League Rallies Resistance
Filed under: SeaEveryone's scared of sequestration. But the US Navy and its shipbuilders are particularly upset by the prospect, because both the large-scale nature of naval construction and a historic...
View ArticleIran Mine Threat Scares Navy; CNO Scrambles To Fix Decades Of Neglect
Filed under: SeaWASHINGTON: Iran's threat to strangle oil tanker traffic through the Straits of Hormuz has the Navy scrambling to redress its decades-old neglect of mine warfare. Admirals from the...
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