SeaPower – For decades, sailors newly assigned to a Navy ship could expect to ease into the job, getting trained before they actually started work. Five years from now, many sailors will have trained themselves and be ready to work immediately.
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Category Archives: USNavy
US Navy – Piercing the Depths: Is man-made noise driving whales from sea to shore?
Virginian Pilot – A detailed look at the sonar / whale controversy.
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US Navy – Truman aircraft used in attack on insurgent locations in Iraq
Virginian Pilot – Aircraft from the USS Harry S. Truman are flying combat missions over Iraq.
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US Navy – Small Company Races For Place On Navy's New Ship Program
SeaPower – The effort to develop and build the Navyís novel Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a classic clash of industrial titans. To foster competition and restrain costs, the serviceís ship procurement chiefs have pitted teams of contractors headed by Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics in a contest for possibly $12 billion in orders and a major foothold in the world market for advanced shallow-water warships. Out of the limelight, however, a lesser-known contest is shaping up that over the long term could prove vital to the Navy. Small companies are racing to win a spot on the LCS, bringing with them innovations in technologies such as power systems, communications and intuitive software.
US Navy – Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk Prepares for Navy Demo
Sea Power – Naval news from around the fleet.
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US Navy – Boeing Converts 737 Into Bomber
Wired – A look at Boeing’s new Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft.
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US Navy – Adm. Fallon: 'We Are on Our Way to a New Navy'
Sea Power – The view from the Commander, Fleet Forces Command.
US Navy – Lockheed Martin Expands Missions for Littoral Craft Concept
Sea Power – Lockheed Martin has expanded yet again the missions proposed for its Covert High-Speed Attack & Reconnaissance Craft (CHARC). Originally envisioned primarily as a surface warfare platform, Lockheed has added the support of Special Operations Forces and, subsequently, littoral antisubmarine warfare and mine countermeasures to its repertoire. An unmanned version also is under consideration.
US Navy – US spy plane spotted flying along Russian border
Kazinform – A US P-3 Orion has been intercepted off of Russia.
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US Navy – Navy Unit Discovers Perils In Task of Rebuilding Fallujah
Washington Post – With the SeaBees in Fallujah.
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US Navy – Ohio Subs Would Be Best Basing Mode for New Interceptor Missile
Sea Power – The U.S. ballistic-missile defense system will be significantly enhanced with the deployment of the new Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) being developed to intercept hostile missiles in the boost and midcourse phases of attack. The KEI is a large missile, which is necessary for it to develop the acceleration and speed needed by the missile defense system.
US Marines – Marines Deliver in Mountain Storm
US Naval Institute Proceedings – In its deployment to Afghanistan earlier this year, the 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) highlighted the contributions Marine air- ground task forces make to joint commands and validated the effectiveness of hard predeployment training.
US Navy – Navy Pursues SM-6 as Defense Against Cruise Missile Threats
Sea Power – The global proliferation of cruise missiles, predicted widely after Operation Desert Storm, has yet to materialize. But the lack of an immediate threat is not stopping the U.S. Navy from updating measures to counter antiship missiles as well as land-attack cruise missiles.
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US Navy – As Missile-Defense System Deploys, Some Eye Directed-Energy Options
Sea Power – Twenty-one years after President Ronald Reagan jarred the world with his notion of an omnibus $26 billion missile-defense program, the U.S. military services are deploying the first elements of a planned multilayered defense scheme intended to protect the United States, some allies and forces on the battlefield from missile attack.
US Navy – Local jets are flying over Iraq at same pace as start of war
Virginian Pilot – Planes from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying combat missions over Iraq at the same pace as they did during the start of the war a year and a half ago.
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US Navy – England Charts a Careful Course Through Political Fire
Sea Power – When the U.S. Navy had a fleet of 485 ships, it typically deployed 98 vessels. Today, it has less than 300 ships, but regularly deploys 92. “So we really have changed a lot,” said Navy Secretary Gordon R. England. “We’re doing much better with what we have. In fact, we surge now more than we ever did.”
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US Navy – Proliferation Security Initiative Seen as Start to Curbing Trade in Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sea Power – While much of the public controversy related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has swirled around Iraq and the presidential debates, the United States and its allies appear to be slowly making headway with a lesser-known effort to track down nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Sixty countries have become supporters of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), an effort to stop shipments of WMD, their delivery systems and related materials worldwide.
US Navy – Crew swaps could extend to Marine amphib groups
Virginian Pilot – The Navyís crew-swapping experiments aboard destroyers and smaller ships could be expanded to entire Marine Corps battalions and the amphibious ships on which they deploy, according to the first Marine general to command a traditionally Navy-run expeditionary strike group
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US Navy – Northrop Grumman Combat UAV is Set for Flight in 2007
Sea Power – Naval news from around the fleet.
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US Navy – Will Judgment Be a Casualty of NCW?
US Naval Institute Proceedings – Technology is a powerful enabler, but it threatens to compromise the decision-making prerogatives of the commander closest to the action with the best view to make decisive judgments.
US Navy – Affordability is Key to Future of Naval Aviation
Sea Power – An interview with the commander of the Naval Air Systems Command, Vice Adm Walter Massenburg.
US Navy – Admiral says Navy must practice fiscal restraint
Virginian Pilot – The Navy must learn to operate more frugally.
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US Navy – Carrier crews to shrink
Virginian Pilot – Experiments to reduce the number of sailors aboard cruisers, destroyers and amphibious ships have shown so much promise that the Navy has decided to take its next big step: shrinking the crew of an aircraft carrier.
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US Navy – High-Speed SEALION is Slated For Transformational Experiments
Sea Power – The U.S. Navy plans to use its stealthy SEALION (SEAL Insertion, Observation, Neutralization) technology demonstration watercraft in future experimentation sponsored by the Department of Defenseís Office of Force Transformation.
US Navy – Submarine Virginia is brought to life in Norfolk
Virginian Pilot – More on the newly commissioned USS Virginia.
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