The Pentagon announced plans to close the massive Pearl Harbor facility after fuel leaked into tap water, affecting thousands of military families and threatening the civilian population's water supply.
The U.S. Navy wants to buy one last San Antonio-class amphibious ship and then end the production line, the service announced in its fiscal 2023 budget request.
The Navy is seeking $195 million for the effort in fiscal year 2023, a a 167% increase over the $73 million the service received for the effort in fiscal 2022.
The U.S. Navy wants to decommission nine of its Freedom-variant littoral combat ships and eliminate the anti-submarine warfare mission for the ships, citing a tradeoff between the cost of the ships and equipment versus the warfighting capability they’d actually deliver.
The Navy's budget request would shrink the fleet in the near term, as growing Columbia submarine costs and the impacts of inflation squeeze out other priorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Navy may consider sailors’ vaccination status in making deployment, assignment and other operational decisions while a lawsuit on the military's vaccination mandate plays out in court.
The U.S. Navy and 26 of its partners and allies concluded a final planning conference for this year’s Rim of the Pacific exercise, the world's largest maritime exercise that had to be scaled down in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.