From Seaman Apprentice Mario Reyes Villatoro, April 9, 2025 NAVAL BASE GUAM – The submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) returned to its homeport in Apra Harbor, Guam, April 9, 2025. Emory S. Land’s arrival marked the completion of…
Saildrone Announces European Expansion Based in Copenhagen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saildrone announced it is establishing a European subsidiary in Denmark to address the urgent need for maritime domain awareness in European waters. Announced at the Maritime Industry Symposium at the Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C., Saildrone Denmark…
USS Shiloh Returns to Home Port After Oceania Maritime Security Initiative 2025
From U.S. 3rd Fleet, April 7, 2025 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) returned to its home port, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, April 4, 2025. Shiloh, in partnership with an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment…
Navy Commissions Attack Submarine USS Iowa
By Joe Markowski, Submarine Readiness Squadron 32, April 7, 2025 GROTON, Conn. – Christie Vilsack, Iowa’s sponsor and former First Lady of Iowa, gave the crew the traditional order to “man our ship and bring her to life,” after which Iowa’s sailors…
How Marines are 3D Printing Lethality Behind Enemy Lines
Logistics in a Contested Environment: A New Operational Reality Although Washington’s military focus over the past three decades has centered on counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East, the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) marked a critical shift, as revisionist powers…
Sea-Air-Space: CMS Breakfast Panel Discusses How to Make Future Shipbuilding Shipshape
During his March 4 joint address to Congress, President Donald Trump vowed to establish a new office of shipbuilding within the White House and “resurrect” America’s shipbuilding industry. Implementing that vision poses both opportunities and challenges, said military and shipbuilding…
Sea-Air-Space: Private Equity Floats Role in U.S. Military and Commercial Shipbuilding
Could private equity investments and business practices jolt the United States’ shipbuilding industry, helping onshore military and commercial capacity to deliver more Navy ships “very fast, very soon,” as President Trump called for in his joint address to Congress last…
Sea-Air-Space: Looking Ahead to a Modern Marine Corps
Six years into its modernization initiative, the Marine Corps has a head start on some of its sister services. But there’s still more to be done, said panelists during the April 8 session “Modernizing the Marine Corps: Building an Agile,…
Sea-Air-Space: TRANSCOM Chief Touts Navy, Merchant Marine Cooperation
Air Force General Randall Reed, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, walked attendees at the Navy League Luncheon on April 8 through a history lesson of national and international conflicts to show the importance of the team of the U.S. Navy…
Sea-Air-Space: Saildrone, Thales Australia Create Alternative to Traditional Surveillance Platforms
Through a project funded by the Office of Naval Research, Saildrone (Booth 1905) has integrated its Surveyor with a BlueSentry thin-line towed array from Thales Australia (Booth 1247), creating a system for autonomous long-endurance undersea maritime domain awareness. Extensive sea…
