– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Acting SECNAV Modly Puts a Ten-Year Clock on Reaching 355 Ship Navy
– USNI News – Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly has made a bold call: the Navy should reach a fleet of 355 ships – both manned and unmanned – within a decade.
Congress slows the US Navy’s roll toward a robot-ship future
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy’s newfound zeal for unmanned surface vessels has been met by skepticism in Congress.
No Decision
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
No These Aren’t Starships In Space Dock, They Are Nuclear Submarines Under Construction
– War Zone – Nuclear submarines have many parallels to fictional starships, but in this case, these super high-tech vessels are made to dive down, not fly up.
From Sea to Sky
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
The Tree of Life
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Chinese navy set to build fourth aircraft carrier, but plans for a more advanced ship are put on hold
– South China Morning Post – The Chinese navy is moving ahead with plans to build another aircraft carrier, but plans for a fifth have been put on hold for now, according to military insiders.
Russian Navy 2019: Two new submarines, 23 new surface vessels and 480 new kinds of armament
– Barents Observer – President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet.
Chinese military exploring new ways of replenishment support at sea
– Global Times – The Taihu, a military supply ship, conducted a replenishment docking with civilian container ship Fuzhou in an offshore area in mid-November amid the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) exploration of new ways to replenish ships at sea.
Navy Amphibious Warfare Ship USS Portland Spotted Heading To Sea With New Laser Turret
– War Zone – The laser represents a large leap in power output over previous systems and is hardened to operate in the harsh maritime environment.
Navy Boss Hints At A Very Different Looking Future Fleet Of Naval Combat Aircraft
– War Zone – He also talked about the possibility of deploying those manned and unmanned aircraft on ships beyond traditional aircraft carriers.
The Wind of Change: The Drift
– Defense News – David Larter says a wind of change is blowing through the Navy right now. It has to do with a new force structure assessment that’s ongoing that keen observers of the Navy believe may set the service on a very different course than the one its on. And there is no keener observer over the Navy than the Congressional Research Service’s Ron O’Rourke…
CMC Berger Wants to Retool Kit for Leaner, Lethal Marine Corps
– USNI News – Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger previewed a shift in focus for the Marine Corps soon after taking over the job this summer, with his Commandant’s Planning Guidance. Now, he’s previewing what that shift will mean for the gear the Marines use and how they spend their money, writing in an essay in War on the Rocks that the service is over-invested in gear to support traditional land wars and under-invested in naval expeditionary capabilities.
Lessons from a Training Ship
– USNI Blog – As a former surface warfare officer, now a civilian pursuing a merchant mariner license, I recently had the opportunity to serve onboard the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College’s training ship, the Empire State VI. I was assigned as a deck training officer and lab instructor, but I also received an immersive education in how the Merchant Marine trains its officers and operates its ships.
France orders six patrol ships, equipped with drones and able to secure prisoners
– Defense News – France has ordered six 70-meter-long (230-feet-long) offshore patrol vessels from Socarenam, a shipyard in Boulogne-sur-Mer on the country’s northern coast, to patrol its vast economic exclusive zone.
Here’s what the Marines’ information command centers will do
– C4ISRNet – The Marine Corps is building new information command centers that will help commanders better understand the information environment.
Here’s what you need to know about the US Navy’s new deadly (and expensive) attack subs
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy inked a deal with General Dynamics Electric Boat on Dec. 2 to be the lead contractor for the newest iteration of the Virginia-class attack submarine.
With China gunning for aircraft carriers, US Navy says it must change how it fights
– Navy Times – Just because China might be able to hit U.S. Navy aircraft carriers with long-range anti-ship missiles doesn’t mean carriers are worthless. The chorus of doom and gloom over China’s anti-access weapons is too simplistic, but that doesn’t mean the Navy should refrain from adjusting the way it fights.
The Navy and Marines want an integrated force for information warfare
– C4ISRNet – To keep up with the changing nature of war and in response to nations such as China and Russia restructuring their militaries around a consolidated information warfare discipline, senior leaders at the Navy and Marine Corps recently said they are looking to boost their own prowess in that area.
The US Navy and Air Force have teamed up on a new ‘Manhattan Project’
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy and Air Force are teaming up to rapidly develop a battle network that can link together Air Force and Navy assets, an effort the Navy’s top officer compared to the 1940s program to develop an atomic bomb.
Navy, Industry Still Talking Over What Ship Designs Could Best Support Distributed Maritime Ops
– USNI News – The Navy and industry are still facing a lot of unknowns during a “dynamic” conversation about what ships to build and how to best support future operations.
Notes on Designing the Marine Corps of the Future
– War on the Rocks – The Commandant says the Marine Corps is not optimized to meet the bold demands of the National Defense Strategy.
5 takeaways: The US Navy’s new top officer issues his orders
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy’s top officer released his first planning guidance Wednesday, the first major document released since ascending to the office earlier this year.
Warship seizes Iranian missile components
– Navy Times – A Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that such sophisticated components have been taken en route to the war there.
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