Submarine Industrial Base Council From U.S. News: Keel Laying Marks Attack Submarine Construction
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Latest on the keel laying of the nation’s 20th Virginia-class attack submarine named for Oregon (all times local): 12:30 p.m....
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From Inside the Navy: Pentagon seeks OK to jump-start negotiations in FY-18 for potential $32B submarine deal
The Defense Department wants permission from Congress to begin negotiations with General Dynamics on a five-year deal beginning in fiscal year 2019 to buy 10...
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From Scout Warrior: Navy Increases Design Support for its New Fleet of Nuclear-Armed “Columbia-Class” Submarines
The Navy is accelerating and increasing design support for the development and construction of its new Columbia-Class nuclear armed ballistic missile submarines — to ensure...
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From Breaking Defense: HASC Adds 5 Ships To Trump Request, But Where’s The $$?
WASHINGTON: Is 13 the Navy’s lucky number? That’s how many ships the House Armed Service Committee wants to buy in 2018, five more than President...
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From the United States Naval Institute News: House’s 2018 Defense Bill Would Increase DDG, SSN Production Rates; Buy Carriers Every 3 Years
CAPITOL HILL – The House Armed Services Committee’s defense bill for 2018 would allow the Navy to buy 15 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers and 13...
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From the National Interest: Why the Future of America’s Nuclear Navy Rests With a Single Company
There is a tendency for experts and laypeople to think of military platforms and their performance largely in terms of hull forms, airframes and vehicle...
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From the National Interest: The U.S. Navy Has the Best Submarines in the World (Largely Thanks to a Terrible Tragedy)
The creation of SUBSAFE lead directly to tougher—and safer—submarines. (Another U.S. Navy submarine, Scorpion, was lost in 1968 but there is no conclusive explanation for...
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From War on the Rocks: Is Trump’s 350-Ship Navy on the Rocks? The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Shipbuilding
Campaign promises are pesky things. President Donald Trump is finding it difficult to deliver on his promise to increase the size of the Navy from...
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From The Day: Admiral: Navy needs better subs, and faster
Groton — The Navy is entering one of the most complex submarine-building eras since the 1970s, the admiral in charge of the service’s undersea warfare...
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From The Seattle Times: Submarines dismantled in Puget Sound are symbols of nation’s defense dilemma
Even the ambitious goals of the Trump administration for a larger Navy are running up against budget and industry constraints. Nowhere is that as true...