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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.

By Jon Solomon* The Combat Logistics Force might be undersized for sustaining high-tempo forward U.S. Navy operations in the event of a major Sino-American war...

By Sydney J. Freedberg Russia’s most advanced attack submarine, the Severodvinsk class. (Navy graphic) NATIONAL HARBOR: Russia could hinder US reinforcements headed to Europe in the...

Last month (Aug 2916) the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) returned home from a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific – the...

The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) air warfare destroyer, Hobart, has begun its first series of sea trials. During these trials, the ship’s propulsion, maneuvering,...

The Royal Australian Navy is conducting the multinational maritime exercise, Kakadu 2016, in Darwin, Australia.Ex ercise Kakadu 2016 is the 13th iteration of the...

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has witnessed a large-scale biennial exercise conducted by the Navy in the Java Sea (Sep 2016). This year the event involved...