Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization last month is prompting the Pentagon to create new policies for leadership absences.
Submarine Boise will begin its maintenance overhaul — originally meant to start in fiscal 2016 — after the Navy awarded HII a $1.2 billion contract.
Leaders from the two departments are discussing allowing VA staff to move into unused space at more than a dozen military hospitals.
The threat of hybrid warfare increases hospital ships' need for defense measures, a new paper argues.
Austin's medical issue is not expected to interfere with his cancer recovery, according to his doctors.
The defense secretary had been non-committal about appearing before lawmakers on the issue.
The Navy is mulling how it could push more ships into a fight and sustain them once there, as it considers what a modern wartime footing looks like.
The initiative is part of Big Navy's efforts to improve sailor quality of life.
But for high-end operations, "you need to have both manned and unmanned assets complement each other."
“We’re 10 years down the road, and we still don’t have something we can field?”
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