ARLINGTON, Va. – The Coast Guard’s senior admiral made his case before Congress for an increased presence in the Arctic and Antarctic and reaffirmed the need for more heavy icebreakers. “We absolutely need to be up in the Arctic and…
Senators Hammer $1 Billion Loss, Industrial Instability with Navy’s Planned 2022 Shipbuilding
ARLINGTON, Va. — Senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee zeroed in on two aspects of the Navy’s 2022 shipbuilding plans that would cost the nation more than $1 billion in contract penalties and lost savings because of reduced shipbuilding. …
Q&A: Heather H. Quilenderino, Director, U.S. National Ice Center and Commander, U.S. Naval Ice Center
Cmdr. Heather H. Quilenderino is the director, U.S. National Ice Center, and commander, U.S. Naval Ice Center. She qualified as a surface warfare officer on a guided-missile cruiser before laterally transferring to the naval oceanography community. She graduated from the…
Crane Ships, Heavy Lift Ships, Tanker Retired from Sealift Fleet
ARLINGTON, Va. — Five sealift ships are now in various stages of recycling now that they have been retired from the Ready Reserve Force (RRF), which provides sealift ships when mobilized in support of the Navy’s Military Sealift Command, a…
Kilby: LUSV’s Missile Cells Would Replace Cells Lost with Decommissioned Cruisers
ARLINGON, Va.— A senior Navy admiral defended the 2022 budget proposal to decommission seven guided-missile cruisers (CGs) and noted their missile cells numerically could be replaced by those on the future Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV). The Navy is proposing…
Navy Plans to Arm F/A-18E/F, F-35C with Air Force’s JASSM-ER Cruise Missile
ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy’s 2022 budget includes funds for a cruise missile that will be new to the Navy but has been in production for the U.S. Air Force. The 2022 budget proposes a procurement of 25 AGM-158B…
Coast Guard Establishes Reserve Enlisted Aviation Workforce
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard has established a Reserve Enlisted Aviation Workforce. In a 10 June message released by Rear Adm. Todd C. Wiemers, assistant commandant for Capabilities (CG-7) and assistant commandant for Reserve (CG-R), the Coast Guard formally…
Navy’s SSP Admiral: New Missile Planned for Introduction on 9th Columbia SSBN
ARLINGTON, Va. — The admiral in charge of developing and sustaining the U.S. Navy’s strategic weapons said the service needs to have the new Trident D5LE2 ballistic missile ready to deploy in fiscal 2039 on the ninth hull of the…
VCNO: Navy’s Task Force Greyhound ‘A Strong Approach’ to Ship Maintenance
ARLINGON, Va. — The vice chief of naval operations (VCNO) told Congress that the Navy’s experiment with an alternate ship availability maintenance concept based on the Forward Deployed Naval Force model is worth pursuing. The concept, called Task Force Greyhound,…
HASC, SASC GOP Leaders Concerned over Possible Cancellation of Navy’s Nuclear SLCM
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Mike Rogers (R-Alabama) and U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), the ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, have expressed deep concern following reports that the acting secretary of the Navy plans to…
