Virginian Pilot – The Bush administration could compromise the integrity of its military base closure process if it pursues a Navy plan to explore transferring a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier to Florida.
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Category Archives: USNavy
US Navy – Shipbuilders criticize budget proposal
Virginian Pilot – President Bush’s 2006 defense budget proposal is the worst in memory for shipbuilders, with low production rates and an apparent lack of planning that endangers shipyards and their suppliers, the industry’s top lobbyist said Tuesday.
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US Navy – What Exactly Is Under the Sea?
Wired – New strategies for mapping the ocean floor.
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US Navy – A new take on the warship
San Diego Union Tribune – A look at the Sea Fighter, a 262-foot-long catamaran designed to operate in shallow coastal waters. This prototype tranformational warship was developed for the Navy’s Office of Naval Research.
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US Navy – Clark, chief of naval operations, confirms retirement
Virginian Pilot – Admiral Vern Clark, the Navy’s top officer, said today he will retire this summer after five years as chief of naval operations – the second-longest tenure in the history of the Navy.
More from Reuters – US Navy facing budget, leadership challenges.
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US Navy – Navy may retire JFK early, move carrier from Norfolk
Virginian Pilot – The Navy wants to retire the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy this year, months earlier than had been expected, and is seriously contemplating the transfer of another flattop from Norfolk to the Kennedy’s home in Mayport, Florida.
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US Navy – Navy to Face Tough Issues As Strategic Review Takes Shape
Sea Power – A look at what the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review holds for the Navy.
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Fourth Generation Warfare – Coming Unglued
Defense and the National Interest – William Lind on whether America’s military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming unglued.
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US Navy – Hospital ship Mercy arrives off Sumatra
San Diego Union Tribune – The Navy hospital ship Mercy arrived off the coast of northern Sumatra yesterday evening with its San Diego crew eager to help island people ravaged by the tsunami.
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US Navy – US carrier begins Aceh pull-out
BBC – The USS Abraham Lincoln which despatched the first helicopters to deliver aid to Aceh after the tsunami is to leave the area.
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US Navy – Admiral faces uncharted waters with new classes of surface ships
Virginian Pilot – The Navy’s emerging surface ship force that Rear Adm. Terrance T. Etnyre will command from the Pacific probably will resemble little of the present fleet and even less of the one he’s known for the past 30 years.
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US Navy – Raytheon's Penetrating JSOW Enters Full-Rate Production
Sea Power – Defense news from around the fleet.
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US Navy – U.S. Military Scaling Back Relief Ops
Associated Press – The USS Abraham Lincoln prepares to return home.
US Navy – U.S. hospital ship to sail from Singapore to tsunami-hit Indonesia
Deutsche Presse Agentur – The hospital ship USNS Mercy sets sail from Singapore to a position off of Sumatra.
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US Navy – US Navy officer attacks 'travelling circus of aid workers' for impeding the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia
Daily Telegraph – An interesting dissenting view on the tsunami relief effort, from aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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US Navy – Whale Stranding in N.C. Followed Navy Sonar Use
Washington Post – At least 37 whales beached themselves and died along the North Carolina shore earlier this month soon after Navy vessels on a deep-water training mission off the coast used powerful sonar as part of the exercise.
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US Navy – Navy Releases Photos of Crash Damage to Nuclear Submarine
New York Times – Pictures of the damaged bow of the USS San Francisco.
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US Navy – The Tomcat's final flight
Virginian Pilot – As their 32-year run as the premier Navy fighter begins to wane, the F-14 Tomcats that no one needs are being fed into a junk yard’s shredder, nose first, to become blocks of aluminum for cans, crates, even cars.
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US Navy – Modeling and Simulation: Working With Systems That Do Not Yet Exist
SeaPower – Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a new reality in naval warfare. The use of mockups, scale models and computerized M&S reduces the risk involved in developing, building and testing new combat systems. With M&S, training is more available, effective and realistic, fostering rapid, less costly validation of future concepts and new rules of engagement.
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US Navy – Danger Zone That Wasn't, and a Sub's Hidden Peril
New York Times – Satellite images of the area where the nuclear submarine USS San Francisco grounded two weeks ago clearly show a wedge-shaped undersea mountain that stretches across more than a mile of a desolate expanse of the South Pacific.
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US Navy – U.S. Navy May Adjust UAV Plans
Aviation Week and Space Technology – The U.S. Navy is trying to harmonize its unmanned aircraft plans and is preparing to tweak its intelligence system in the coming months in response to guidance issued by the service’s top officer.
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US Navy – U.S. Sees End to Tsunami Relief, Survivors Worry
Reuters – U.S. forces said they were prepared to wind down tsunami relief efforts in Asia.
CNN – Indonesia says it won’t expel foreign aid troops – The USS Bonhomme Richard is being replaced by the USS Essex off of Sumatra.
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US Marines – Three ships departing to help hurricane recovery in Caribbean
Virginian Pilot – The USS Saipan Expeditionary Strike Group will leave Norfolk today for the Caribbean, where its sailors will assist in a humanitarian effort to rebuild schools, dig wells and provide medical support in the aftermath of Hurricane Jeanne.
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US Navy – With Navy changes, loss of carrier may be OK, study suggests
Virginian Pilot – Critical changes in the way the Navy uses and maintains aircraft carriers may permit the service to retire one of the mammoth ships without substantially weakening the fleetís ability to fight wars or respond to crises, a new report to Congress suggests.
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US Navy – Navy Organization and Missions
SeaPower – The state of the Navy in January 2005.
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