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USNI News Home » Budget Industry » GAO: Design Delays on Columbia Sub Program Leading to Construction Delays, Cost Increases GAO: Design Delays on Columbia Sub Program Leading to Construction Delays, Cost Increases Artist’s rendering of the Columbia-class SSBN submarine. US Navy Image The Government Accountability Office released a new report that warns Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine cost and schedule plans are at risk due to problems with a new digital design tool and cascading effects stemming from the design challenges. The report – Columbia Class Submarine: Delivery Hing...

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A family in Vietnam dug up a one-ton shell from the battleship USS New Jersey. Fortunately, it was a dud, but it still packed 150 pounds of high explosive.

“We’ve had significant challenges introducing the ship to the fleet, successfully operating the ship, [and] ensuring it meets the minimum mission capabilities we desire,” said retired Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, now a senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. For the Navy, a system-wide design flaw for the LCS project would represent another misstep in what’s been a draining period of logistical nightmares, public relations missteps and political controversies. The service also is bracing for a leadership change ...

These boats will pair with manned submarines to hunt down and sink enemy warships. The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to build two new undersea large drone prototypes to launch from a submarine, surveil the undersea, locate enemy mines, subs, and surface ships, and coordinate targeting for torpedo attacks.  Naval Sea Systems Command just released a request to industry to submit proposals to build two prototype Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LDUUV) to begin construction next year. The LDUUV program is intended to complement a sweeping broader scale Navy unmanned system effort ...