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With uncertainty rising at home and abroad, service leaders decided to offer Congress a trio of scenarios.

A Royal Malaysian Navy Scorpene submarine. Naval Group has offered to build two AIP-capable variants of the submarine for Indonesia in Surabaya. French shipbuilder Naval Group has offered to build two air-independent propulsion (AIP)-capable...

Hoping to navigate between the need to develop a hybrid manned-unmanned fleet and the uncertainty of future threats, funding, and industrial-base limits, the US Navy (USN) has developed a trio of options for its proposed 30-year shipbuilding...

The US Navy (USN) and US Marine Corps' (USMC) fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request totalled USD230.8 billion, but the services are looking at divesting several air assets to save money, according to documents released on 14 April. “Divestmen...

As part of its continuing divest-to-invest budgeting strategy, the US Navy (USN) detailed more “divestment initiatives” in another round of proposed fiscal year (FY) 2023 documents released on 14 April. For example, the USN proposed to elimi...

The ulterior aim of critics’ inflation focus is not economics but the strategic choices the Pentagon’s budget request implements.

If the Marines could spend any more money as part of the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget, they’d ask to buy another amphibious warship. Ranked higher than new F-35B and C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters or Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, the number one item on the Corps’ FY 2023 unfunded priority list to Congress […]

On 28 March, during the release of documents supporting their fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request, US Navy (USN) officials detailed plans that would result in a dip in ship count throughout the middle part of the decade, despite a Congressi...

Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for...

US Navy (USN) officials detailed plans on 28 March, during the release of documents supporting their Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget request, that would result in a dip of ship counts through the middle part of the decade, despite a Congression...