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As new NATO command becomes fully operational, top US military officer issues warning over 'great power war'  DefenseNews.com

The U.S. Navy and the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office are making the most of the remaining months of their partnership on the Ghost Fleet Overlord unmanned surface vessel program, taking lessons learned from two recent voyages across the Panama Canal and upping the ante by putting these USV…

US Navy awards Sikorsky $879M contract for CH-53K helicopters  DefenseNews.com

U.S. Navy is seeing improved maintenance on deployed littoral combat ships amid efforts to boost readiness and operational endurance, now that is has switched from contractor-based work to sailor-performed maintenance, the commander of a destroyer squadron said.

The Navy needs to overhaul several dry docks at its four public shipyards so they can accommodate new attack submarines and aircraft carriers -- but the first attempt to build a new dry dock in Maine is already facing cost-overruns and schedule delays.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have finessed their requirement for amphibious ships, now asking for 28 to 31 traditional amphibious ships that could flow in to support forces already operating in an area if a conflict broke out.

The U.S. Navy conducted the first of three in-water blasts near first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, kicking off the full-ship shock trials process on a nuclear-powered carrier for the first time in 34 years.

The Navy submitted an abbreviated update to its shipbuilding plans steps back from the focus on 355 ships and instead lays out priorities for a future distributed naval force.

Lawmakers are unhappy the Navy both requested to decommission seven cruisers and cut its planned two-destroyer buy down to one in its fiscal 2022 spending request.

The Navy’s FY22 spending plans met resistance from lawmakers who worry that it doesn’t preserve enough force structure for a near-term fight with China and that it doesn’t invest enough in growing the fleet.

The cost of a ship replacement program has risen enough to breach cost thresholds, but Navy says the program has stabilized.

The fiscal 2022 shipbuilding budget was never going to kick off a shipbuilding renaissance to transform the U.S. Navy into its envisioned future fleet design. But experts argue it could have done a lot more to get ready for the upcoming wave of shipbuilding.

Vanilla Unmanned, a small business that was featured in an April naval drill, promises “world-record endurance, unmatched payload, and then a disruptive cost profile

Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine announced a leadership change at the Wisconsin shipyard, with retired U.S. Navy captain Mark Vandroff set to take over as CEO in July.

If Carlos Del Toro is confirmed as Navy secretary, the Naval Academy graduate and business owner will be the second-ever Hispanic individual in that position.

The U.S. Navy’s Light Amphibious Warship program is still on track for a fiscal 2022 start of construction, despite the program not appearing in the shipbuilding plan in the FY22 budget request, Navy officials told Defense News.

The U.S. Navy needs $50 million to get Virginia-class attack submarine construction back on track, after the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately hit the shipbuilding program, the service says.

A deal to buy three amphibious transport docks and an amphibious assault ship together in a first-of-its-kind contract appears to be falling apart, as the Navy is not ready to commit to buying so many amphibs before it finishes another future force structure assessment.

The service may have to pick just one of three major modernization programs on the horizon to fund, and postpone the other two due to budget limitations.