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Despite record budgets, the US Navy is short hundreds of millions for maintenance

The U.S. Navy is short hundreds of millions of dollars for ship depot maintenance this year and is already looking at just shy of $1 billion in unfunded maintenance in 2020.

By David B. Larter

6 years ago

How the Navy plans to retain officers with special skills

The latest reform is part of a larger series of innovations designed to keep valued officers in uniform.

By Mark D. Faram

6 years ago

Senior officer retirement boards make cuts

The Navy panels were looking to weed out officers with declining performance or misconduct on their books.

By Mark D. Faram

6 years ago

No shutdown: House finalizes FY19 military budget, and Trump drops his opposition

The president says he will sign the funding measure, which gives the military its full-year budget on schedule for the first time in a decade.

By Leo Shane III and Joe Gould

7 years ago

This week in Congress: The defense scramble before mid term elections

Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Sept. 24.

By Leo Shane III

7 years ago

Defense bill would kill whales, Democrats say

119 Democrats want to preserve wildlife protections that would be weakened by the House's FY19 NDAA.

7 years ago