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Get the US Navy’s frigate program back on schedule
Failure to return the FFG-62 to the expected cost and schedule will further erode confidence in Navy acquisition management.
By Everett Pyatt
US Navy nixed a Virginia sub amid spending frenzy to support suppliers
The Navy cut a submarine from its spending plan, but is pouring billions of dollars into supporting suppliers and helping increase their production rates.
Navy postpones several modernization programs to pay for operations
The Navy's fiscal 2025 budget request prioritizes near-term readiness and lethality and delays a number of larger, longer-term modernization programs.
Pentagon abandons effort to scale down amphibious ship design
The Navy and Marine Corps will move forward with the current Flight II LPD amphibious ship design, rather than a scaled-down, cheaper one DoD pushed for.
Military prepares to brief a plan to get its V-22 Ospreys flying again
The military services on Friday will lay out plans to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for addressing safety concerns stemming from a fatal 2023 crash.
US Navy orders Swiftships to stop work on its landing craft program
The yard has laid off nearly 100 workers related to the LCU program since January and is considering actions to dispute the Navy’s termination of the deal.
Missile Defense Agency boss had affairs with subordinates: IG report
The agency's executive director was found to have used her position to get one of her partners promoted.
Supplier bottlenecks threaten US Navy effort to grow arms stockpiles
The sea service spent billions of dollars to increase its weapons inventory. Now it has run into a major obstacle.
A Houthi missile got within a nautical mile of USS Gravely on Tuesday
Gravely used its Phalanx Close-In Weapons System, a cannon that can shoot 4,500 rounds a minute, to take out the Houthi missile.
USS Gravely shoots down another Houthi missile over the Red Sea
The missile firing came on the same day that leaders of a militant group directed its members to halt attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria.
USS Carney shoots down missile in first attack on Navy since October
It's the first time the Houthis directly targeted a U.S. warship since the rebels began their attacks on shipping in October, U.S. officials said.
By Jon Gambrell and Tara Copp, The Associated Press