Navy

Shipbuilders swarm Capitol Hill to lobby for aircraft carrier funding

The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition wants $600 million to secure building of the years-delayed CVN-82.

How a beatdown at sea turned Russia's navy into China's junior partner

Even the new maritime truce with Ukraine can't change a strategic tilt of the past three years.

Service leaders beg for flexibility as full-year continuing resolution looms

Without a new budget—or relief from the strictures of its absence—the military can’t start new projects or pay for the unexpected.

F-35 to get new software this summer—but there’s no date yet for planned full upgrade

Lockheed is hoping to wring out problems this year as the new administration revisits purchase plan.

Weld, baby, weld: White House to create an ‘office of shipbuilding’

Trump wants America to bend steel and build like it used to.

A 3D-printed submarine? Not likely, but maybe something close

The Navy is bumping up its use of additive manufacturing to make critical, delay-prone submarine parts, said Christopher Miller, NAVSEA’s executive director.

SECNAV nominee: Trump wants ‘shipbuilding, shipbuilding, shipbuilding’

Investor John Phelan wants to apply his business experience to the ailing defense industrial base, as Pentagon looks at cutting civilian shipyard personnel.