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USS Zumwalt to receive hypersonic missile upgrades at HII
The destroyer's modernization period includes installation of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile system.
By Diana Stancy
As US Navy rethinks its fleet, Ingalls Shipbuilding faces uncertain future
Over the past three years, the U.S. Navy has tightened its budget and changed its requirements, making the future look far less rosy for a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.
Defense industry frets as funding talks crawl
Despite repeated warnings from lawmakers and uniformed Pentagon leaders that a full-year continuing resolution will hurt national security, some in the defense industry are still worried that budgetary route is a possibility.
By Joe Gould
‘No company is immune’: Supply chain woes weigh on defense firms
Supply chain problems have hit all sides of the defense industry in unexpected ways — and small businesses with narrower profit margins are particularly worried about how they can weather this storm.
Sea power backers propose $25 billion to fix US shipyards
The introduction of the 11-page Shipyard Act comes after President Joe Biden proposed a $2.25 trillion infrastructure package and Republicans made a $568 billion counteroffer.
By Joe Gould
Navy debuts cleaner-burning tugboats in Washington state
The 90-foot (27-meter) tugboat has two diesel engines capable of generating 3,800 horsepower, two generators and 13 different computer systems.
Renewing our commitment to veterans with disabilities
Businesses can thank veterans who are blind by opening the door to greater opportunities for this untapped workforce, says the author of this commentary.
By Kevin Lynch
Sen. Jack Reed is a quiet professional. If Democrats win the Senate, he’ll be front and center.
With Democrats fighting to retake the Senate and the White House in the Nov. 3 elections, Sen. Jack Reed is favored to move into one of Congress' most visible positions and become a major defense figure for his party ― and just as the military’s transition toward competition with China and Russia is gaining momentum.
By Joe Gould
USS Montana submarine christened in virtual ceremony
The U.S. Navy recently christened its newest nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine, the USS Montana, at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia in a ceremony that featured some flavor of the Big Sky state.
By Phil Drake, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune via the AP
Defense industry worries Congress will punt budget deal into 2021
As Congress readies a stopgap spending measure this week, the defense industry is girding for a long-term funding patch that could delay both new procurement programs and needed fiscal certainty into next year.
By Joe Gould
Navy’s new destroyer, damaged in a 2019 collision, heads to its homeport in Florida
The Arleigh Burke class destroyer Delbert D. Black was damaged in an accident in 2019 when a Norwegian-flagged vessel struck a barge that subsequently struck the ship, causing delays to the construction and about $31 million in damage.
By Navy Times staff