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This phase of pile driving is scheduled to run through March. Work will continue seven days a week during daylight with prep work on second shift.

NORFOLK, VA – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic, Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) officers recently assumed duties as Public Works Officers (PWO) at Public Works Departments (PWD) at two

The Navy has modernized and reached many innovative technological milestones and advancements in its 245th year.

As the U.S. Navy celebrates its 246th birthday on Oct. 13, it is an apt time to reflect on its accomplishments of the past year. Judging by those accomplishments, innovation should be the theme of the Navy’s 245th year. Just like wireless radio and nuclear-powered technologies, reliable unmanned warships are on the cusp of becoming a game-changer at sea. More quickly produced reliable unmanned warships can help counter China’s rapidly growing naval fleet.

PORTSMOUTH — The state’s two Democratic U.S. senators and Maine’s independent U.S. senator gave the nations new deputy secretary of defense a tour Wednesday of the region’s two military bases — the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery and the N.H. Air Guard 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease. While it was largely a show and tell for Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks to see the ongoing construction of a new superflood basin at the shipyard and the new fleet of 12 KC-46A refuel...

The Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) President’s Budget submission (PB22) of $211.7B is an increase of $3.8B (1.8%) from the FY21 enacted budget. This budget supports and aligns with the President’s Interim National Security Strategy,

USNI News Home » Budget Industry » NAVSEA: Navy Could Accelerate Some Public, Private Shipyard Upgrades If Money Were Available NAVSEA: Navy Could Accelerate Some Public, Private Shipyard Upgrades If Money Were Available May 7, 2021 1:53 PM Terrance Wells, from San Diego, ties straps for a containment project on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on Oct. 26, 2020. US Navy Photo Support is growing within the House Armed Services Committee to accel...

“Congress has already taken the important step of committing to a larger Navy, but our shipyards are having trouble servicing today’s 296-ship fleet and are clearly insufficient to maintain the 355-ship or larger fleet that we need to counter China, Russia and other adversaries,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican and a lead author of the bill. Without money earmarked for building up domestic shipyards, the Navy will be forced to “limp along” with its fleet continuing to d...

Shipyard infrastructure needs a boost from Congress By: Sen. Roger Wicker   3 hours ago The aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush sits in a dry dock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. (MCSN Steven Edgar/U.S. Navy) Lawmakers in Washington are debating what to include in an upcoming infrastructure bill. Missing from the conversation thus far are the serious infrastructure needs facing America’s shipyards. These facilities are shouldering more and more of our national security burden as our nat...

USNI News Acting SECNAV Harker: Navy in Favor of Accelerating Shipyard Revitalization Plan April 29, 2021 6:10 PM USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) prepares to pull into Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. in 2017. US Navy Photo This post has been updated to correct the committee acting Navy Secretary Thomas Harker was testifying in front of. The Navy welcomes the chance to speed up its 20-year effort to revitalize the nation’s public shipyards, the service’s acting secretary said tod...