Government Computer News – Light, fast and laden with IT, the experimental Stiletto would support special operations forces.
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Virginian Pilot – It costs the Navy $1 million to $1.5 million to train one Navy aviator. How do you persuade one to stay for five more years? How about $125,000?
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Virginian Pilot – U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, who in December capped a successful drive to save the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, on Friday jumped to the forefront of a new effort to retire the ship.
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San Diego Union Tribune – Following the directions of the recently released defense review to shift its focus westward, the Navy plans to hold a series of major exercises involving four different aircraft carriers in the Pacific this summer, the Pacific Fleet commander said Tuesday.
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Naval War College Review – As the U.S. Navy transforms itself for new missions in a new strategic environment, five issuesócivilian mariners and sea basing, unmanned aerial and underwater systems, hospital ships, the Law of the Sea Convention and the future of naval warfare, and conflict resolution in the exclusive economic zoneóemerge as having particular importance not only for the serviceís planners but for their legal advisers as well.

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BBC – US Navy ships are patrolling the Yemeni coast to try to recapture 23 convicts who broke out of jail on Friday, in case they try to flee by sea.
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Associated Press – The Navy submitted a plan today for reversing the decline in the size of the U.S. fleet, expanding from 281 ships this year to 313 within several years, though the number of aircraft carriers would drop by one, to 11.
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Virginian Pilot – Enlisted sailors who worked on the Navyís aircraft for years, cleaned their windshields, even changed their engines but could never fly them unless they joined the officer corps can now apply to wear wings of gold.
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Virginian Pilot – A look at how the QDR affects the US Navy.
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Virginian Pilot – Though construction of the Navyís next-generation aircraft carrier wonít start for two years, workers at Northrop Grumman Newport News are already building it in a lab ñ virtually.
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Washington Post – William Arkin on how last August, the USS Virginia, first of a class of new nuclear-powered attack submarines, slipped out of its homeport in Groton, Connecticut, for a 90 day clandestine deployment in support of the global war on terrorism???to South America to spy on cell-phone conversations.
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Virginian Pilot – The guided missile destroyer Forrest Sherman, the latest of the Arleigh Burke class, is to be commissioned into service today during ceremonies at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida.
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Virginian Pilot – A workhorse for four decades, the Navyís last two operational H-3 Sea King helicopters rumbled off toward the ìbone yardî Friday in a retirement ceremony made up mostly of sailors half their age.
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Virginian Pilot – The Pacific Fleet has made training to track and destroy submarines its top combat priority amid concerns its sailors’ skills have not kept up with the advanced diesel submarines China and other Pacific Rim countries have been buying.
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Bloomberg – The Pentagon has directed the Navy to assume a greater presence’ in the western Pacific by adding at least one aircraft carrier and five nuclear submarines over the next decade, according to a draft of the Pentagon’s review of strategy and forces.
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UPI – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for a really fast, really small submarine. It’s also seeking a major breakthrough in physics: making supercavitation actually work on a large scale.
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Virginian Pilot – An interview with the crew of the destroyer Winston Churchill which has returned 16 Indian crewmen to their ship and arrested 10 suspected Somali hijackers after foiling a piracy in the Indian Ocean.
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Virginian Pilot – A look inside the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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Reuters – U.S. Navy vessels pursued a suspected pirate ship in the Indian Ocean off Somalia’s coast and fired warning shots to capture its crew.
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Virginian Pilot – Creating goodwill is a major emphasis of the Combined Joint Task Force ñ Horn of Africa.
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Pacific Daily News – Will the US home port an aircraft carrier on Guam?
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Virginian Pilot – It’s been over a year since more than 30 whales beached themselves on the Outer Banks, and local residents and scientists alike wonder whether Navy sonar contributed to the deaths???
Two preliminary reports from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Associationís Fisheries division offer some insight but donít draw firm conclusions.
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Virginian Pilot – In a move to bring sailors closer to combat and to assume duties from the fatigued Army and Marines, the Navy formally established the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command at a ceremony Friday at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.
The new command pulls together Seabees, cargo handlers, ordnance disposal experts and maritime security forces under one structure. It will also create a new riverine force for patrolling inland waterways in countries plagued by terrorists, drug runners and pirates.
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Wired – The U.S. Navy is field-testing a new short-range communications device called LightSpeed that could soon let sailors talk securely up to two miles away — just by looking at each other. The device uses infrared, similar to that of a television remote control, to transmit audio and visual information.
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Scripps Howard – Just as the U.S. Navy is gearing up to install a 660-square-mile sonar training range off the coast of North Carolina, evidence is mounting that sonar harms some whales.
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