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…
Sea-Air-Space: Navy Spearheads Historic Investments in Shore Infrastructure
The U.S. Navy is modernizing the condition, configuration and affordability of its public shipyards and shore infrastructure, according to Rear Admiral Dean VanderLey, including by departing in some cases from traditional acquisition strategies. “Our shore infrastructure on our Navy bases…
Sea-Air-Space: U.S., Canada Support Investment to Maintain Arctic Security
The U.S. Coast Guard was pleased to hear of President Trump’s interest in acquiring as many as 40 new icebreakers, said Coast Guard Vice Admiral Tom Allan, the acting deputy commandant for operations. “Whenever your boss is interested in 40…
Sea-Air-Space: ThayerMahan’s Outpost TM001 Christened on Show Floor
After speaking on a panel about AUKUS, the partnership to build submarines and share technology between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Connecticut) took to the show floor to celebrate an early technology partnership. Courtney broke…
