Business

Can Navy warships follow aviators’ path to 80%-deployable rates?

Leaders say the keys are planning better, stockpiling parts—and hiring thousands of shipyard workers.

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Navy expands use of AI for target spotting, tracking

Two warships will test prototypes of Rebellion Defense’s IRIS system next year.

Business

A shipbuilder leans into lasers and emerging tech

HII CEO touts mission-systems business, downplays tariffs’ effects, and worries about the federal workforce.

Threats

Denmark's naval modernization plan reflects threats from Russia, US

Copenhagen aims to buy one vessel to protect undersea cables and six or more that might defend Greenland.

Ideas

Add special operators to the Joint Simulation Environment

The X-Men have the right idea: training needs to include the whole team.

Business

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.

Ideas

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.

Policy

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.

Business

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.

Policy

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

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

Science & Tech

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.