In this commentary, Huntington-Ingalls Industries’ corporate director of customer relations, Patrick H. Stadt, makes the case for a U.S. Navy version of the company’s National Security Cutter. The fourth of eight planned National Security Cutters is currently in production at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss. The first three cutters have been delivered to […]

The brass makes a tough choice to give up prized ships in order to better run the ones that will remain.

Boeing has delivered the first aircraft of its final batch of Super Hornets and Growlers — unless something changes.

Officials acknowledge the new ship has gone $1 billion over budget so far, but say it’ll enter the fleet on schedule.

Buck McKeon wants the Navy to keep and upgrade the ships that DoD would decommission to save money.

The Marine Corps considers its nautical future under the new defense strategy that calls for focus on the Pacific.

Exercises, partnerships, pirate-fighting — America’s forward-deployed destroyers won’t just protect Europe from ballistic missiles.

Will the sun set on Boeing’s golden goose, or can it find new orders to keep production rolling?

The commandant of the Coast Guard is pounding the pavement, making his pitch.

Critics said the Navy Department’s push for alternative energy is a bad use of its constrained budgets.

The Navy’s leadership is acknowledging its fleet will, at best, not grow in the near-term.

Virginia says shrinking DoD budget growth means the Navy should scrap its plan to move a carrier.

GAO says it’s going to take a lot of technical and budgetary problem-solving to field the Navy’s next-model destroyer.

The Pentagon must continue to tweak its weapons mix if it wants to meet the military challenges of this century, a study concludes.

An advanced new missile could potentially mean big changes for the littoral combat ship.

A trio of experts said that unless the Navy changes course, its fleet will continue to shrink, age and could become obsolete.

Navy Undersecretary Bob Work said he was ‘psyched’ about the future and mocked skeptics of the service’s plans.

The commandant of the Coast Guard worries about realizing his plans for new large cutters.

Huntington-Ingalls is not giving up on a naval export version of its Coast Guard cutter. Trouble is, does anyone want to buy one?

The Senate’s biggest destroyer advocate questions the wisdom of the Navy’s high-volume LCS strategy.