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The Constellation-class, the U.S. Navy's latest guided-missile frigate, is under construction, aiming to enhance multi-mission capabilities with a design based on the European FREMM.

 

The 2020 defense budget will be the most important defense budget of the Trump Administration. The 2020 budget request is the first one fully developed by the Trump team.

Providing for the common defense and allocating taxpayers’ dollars are the two most important tasks that rest on Congress.

The two congressional delegations have long championed funding for both Ingalls Shipbuilding and Bath Iron Works. U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and U.S. Representatives Steven Palazzo (R-MS) and Trent Kelly (R-MS) joined lawmakers from the Maine congressional delega

Here is what you need to know about some of the Navy’s different types of destroyers, and what sets them apart from other ships.

Senate appropriators are worried about the Navy’s budget tactics and are calling upon the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study to address their concerns. The Senate Appropriations Committee wants the comptroller general, which leads the GAO, to assess the procedures both the Navy and the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) use when […]

The Navy has stood up an office to craft the next major surface combatant after more than ten years of starts and stops. On Friday, the service held a small ceremony to open the Guided-Missile Destroyer (DDG(X)) program office, designated as PMS 460 under Program Executive Office Ships, with a goal to start construction of […]

By Duane J. Truitt The U.S. Navy is faced with several big challenges in maintaining undersea warfare dominance – the domain of the fast attack nuclear submarine or “SSN.” These challenges include the reemergence of a near peer naval threat that is a direct challenge to the entire U.S. Navy, including our SSN force. The current and growing undersea threat includes both advanced technology attack submarines (including nuclear, diesel-electric, and air independent propulsion variants) with ...

USNI News Navy: Constellation Frigate, DDG(X) Programs Mark Start of ‘Surface Ship Renaissance’ Rendering of USS Constellation (FFG-62). Fincantieri Image The Navy already has models of the Constellation-class frigate and the upcoming DDG(X) destroyer in the water at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock in Maryland and is using a new set of engineering best practices to guide the development of both programs, several Navy officials explained last week. The Fiscal Year 2020 defense bill or...