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By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Yesterday on the floor of Congress, Roger Wicker, the senior United States senator from Mississippi, addressed his fellow lawmakers about an issue that has been...

By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) Yesterday on the floor of Congress, Roger Wicker, the senior United States senator from Mississippi, addressed his fellow lawmakers about an issue that has been...

Commentary Kurt Campbell, now at the White House, came up with the “Pacific Pivot” in approximately 2010. It ...

Two Maryland senators are making another pass at funding the restoration of the Coast Guard Yard, a...

"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."

Progressive advocacy groups decry an eleventh-hour attempt by Republicans in Congress to increase the Pentagon’s already massive budget by $25 billion.

Amid competition with China, US lawmakers move proposal to upgrade naval shipyards ANI | Updated: May 19, 2021 21:30 IST New York [US], May 19 (ANI): In a bid to prepare for a greater power competition with China, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers has proposed a USD 25 billion cash infusion into Americas outdated naval shipyards. Considering the pace at which Beijing is building its own ships, there are mounting concerns in the American defence community o...

Proposed legislation would inject billions into the Navys public shipyards Includes Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth and last updated 2021-05-04 16:33:01-04 PORTSMOUTH, Va. — PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The nations four public shipyards, including Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, could get a significant boost toward modernization efforts if proposed bipartisan legislation is approved. Last week, a coalition of Senators and Representatives introduced the Supplying Help to Infrastructure in ...

The aircraft carrier USS (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Wesley J. Breedlove/US Navy) So why is the Biden administration ignoring it, even as new threats to American naval supremacy emerge? There is good news at last for America’s armed forces, or at least for the Navy. A bipartisan group of legislators has sponsored a bill that has the potential to address at one stroke a first-order priority for American national security: upgrading and expanding the nation’s shipyards. It’s t...

To compete with China, Russia, Senate bill to fund U.S. shipyards Robert Besser 03 May 2021, 02:54 GMT+10 A proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on April 28 would fund a $25 billion investment in public and private shipyards that build and maintain the U.S. Navy fleet The bill would deliver $21 billion to four shipyards, as part of the Navys Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program Private shipyards would qualify for $2 billion, and another $2 billion would be directed to comm...