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Advances in undersea warfare and defenses by China and Russia are endangering the key strategic ability of U.S. Navy nuclear attack submarines to deter a war in the Taiwan Strait or track adversarial missile submarines, according to a report by two experts on American defense capabilities.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told newly commissioned officers at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday that they are ready to "defend our democracy with honor, courage and commitment."

A Navy investigation prompted by a spate of suicides is recommending widespread improvements in housing, food, parking and internet for sailors as well as changes to mental health and other personnel programs. The much-anticipated report lays out a sweeping condemnation of living and working conditions at naval shipyards that had languished for years but were brought to light by the deaths.

The commander of the Naval Special Warfare Center who was reprimanded in connection with the death last year of a Navy SEAL candidate has been pulled out of his job about two months early, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

According to CIA Director William Burns, Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered his army to be ready to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan by 2027.

Former and current executives at an Alabama-based shipbuilding company are accused of manipulating cost estimates for the Navy's troubled Littoral Combat Ship program to help the company meet revenue projections.

The United States and Britain will deploy nuclear-powered attack submarines to Australia as part of the mini-alliance known as AUKUS, and Australia will buy up to five of the Navy's frontline Virginia-class nuclear submarines in the coming years, the Biden administration disclosed on Monday.

The Navy on Thursday laid to rest the remains of a 28-year-old sailor who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor, the culmination of a decades-long effort to identify his remains among the hundreds of unidentified sailors and marines killed in the Japanese sneak attack in 1941 that drew the U.S. into World War II.

Michael Schmidt was just 13 months old when his father, Gunner's Mate Third Class Herman Schmidt, died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

The family and supporters of a Navy officer serving a three-year prison sentence in Japan will demonstrate Friday outside the White House during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's visit.