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Countdown: The top stories you need to watch for in 2020!
Today, we bring you up to the ninth most important trend you'll see next year.
By Navy Times staff
Latest "Maritime Administration" stories
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Despite rising awareness of critical US sealift shortfalls, solutions are elusive
It’s unclear how the U.S. plans to stop a capacity collapse among the ships needed to transport up to 90 percent of the Army’s and Marine Corps’ equipment for a major conflict.
By David B. Larter
US Army warns of crippling sealift shortfalls during wartime
The U.S. Army is troubled by a looming sealift shortfall that will create “unacceptable risk in force projection” within the next five years if the Navy doesn’t act quickly.
By David B. Larter
The US Navy will have to pony up and race the clock to avoid a sealift capacity collapse
The U.S. Defense Department is pouring money into making the force more lethal, but by the end of the 2020s it will face the prospect of cascading down a sealift capacity cliff.
By David B. Larter