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Diesel submarines are cheap, defensible, and punch above their weight. Heres What You Need to Remember: The seemingly mundane tradeoff between ship types and budget lines carries fateful import for U.S. foreign policy. For the past five years or so these pixels have been arguing—nay, clamoring—for the U.S. Navy to build or buy a contingent of diesel attack submarines (SSKs) to fill out its undersea inventory. If anything the logic for going conventional is more compelling now than eve...

Toggle open close On November 30, 2020, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) decided to forego replacement or repair of the severely damaged USS Bonhomme Richard following a days-long fire during the previous summer. The obvious rationale was easy to digest: $3 billion for a new ship was too much compared to $30 million over a year’s time to decommission the ship.REF However, easily missed in the Navy’s press statements was the compounding rationale of limited shipyard capacity even to cons...

Reaping FRIB’s isotopes to sow new science A new $13 million grant is helping the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at MSU harvest unused isotopes for a variety of research fields It’s no secret that Michigan State University is a leader in nuclear science. The university boasts the nation’s top-ranked nuclear physics graduate program. It’s also the home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, or DOE-SC, user facility that will power cutting...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up In a Future Military, You Must Spend to Deter December 15, 2020 The Newsletter OPINION — President-elect Joe Biden and Defense Secretary-designee ret-Gen. Lloyd Austin will inherit a Defense Department already in transition, shifting to China as the future...