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NEWPORT, R.I. – After more than 30 years, an American warship will pull into a New Zealand port in November and could mark the start of regular port visits for the U.S. Navy, New Zealand’s Chief of Navy told US Naval Institute News.

By Steve Wills* The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, like the rest of the Navy, has been in the midst of a large turn since the end of the last decade when the Navy began to come to grips with a new global strategic situation.

By Matthew Gamble* A key part of any modern navy is its rotary-wing component. The capabilities that helicopters bring to naval operations are essential in...

By Rick Chersicla* An American Infantryman, laden with equipment and weaponry, steps off the ramp of a specially modified landing craft. He is not storming the beaches of Normandy or moving ashore on Guadalcanal – in fact, he is not even landing from the open ocean or a sea.

Maritime Disputes in Perspective By Sam Goldsmith (This is a text-only version of the executive summary. A PDF of the whole article with illustrations and tables...

By Sydney J. Freedberg (Breaking Defense) WASHINGTON: At least three shipyards that do work for the US Navy have bought and used drydocks from China....

Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the United States Naval Institute (USNI) for a Maritime Security Dialogue with Admiral John...

As the Navy and Marine Corps work through a high-end warfighting exercise in the Pacific, which features a traditional three-ship amphibious ready group (ARG) operating with a guided-missile destroyer as a peek into future operations, a similar ship pairing is performing real-world missions in the Mediterranean (Sep 2016), US Naval Institute News reports.

Naval Sea Systems command has awarded Austal USA a $248.8 million contract for work on two Expeditionary Fast Transports (EPF), formerly known as the Joint High Speed Vessel, according to Pentagon contract announcement (Sep 2016).

A report to the US Congress says current US Navy plans call for achieving and maintaining a fleet of 308 ships of certain types and numbers. But some observers have advocated increasing Navy’s force-level goal to about 350 ships.