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

Adm. Gilday says recent exercises and several years of analysis are helping the service converge on numbers for its long-range shipbuilding plan.

The Navy’s Final Design for the Constellation-Class Frigate Is Nearly Complete These warships will be much better armed and protected compared to the older littoral combat ships, but they will carry on the ability to deploy drones. The Navy’s emerging FFG 62 Constellation-class Frigate is now nearing completion of its design phase, something likely to raise interesting questions about the kinds of weapons, sensors and technologies the new ships will incorporate. The Navy’s new FFG(X) ships are intended to bring what could be called a new hybrid mixture of surface warfare attack, reconna...

By   Paul McLeary on January 19, 2021 at 7:16 PM Navy carriers lined up at Norfolk, Va. WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will take a hard new look at the Trump Administration’s last-minute shipbuilding plans, presumptive Defense Secretary nominee Lloyd Austin’s said in written responses to questions before today’s nomination hearing. A new 30-year Shipbuilding Plan is due with the 2022 budget submission expected in March or April, while the Future Naval Force Study (FNFS) would require tens of billions more to be pumped into the Navy’s shipbuilding account — a plan that might end up be...

More Than 1,000 Australians Ready for Naval Shipbuilding Careers More than 1,000 Australians are ready to join the naval workforce as shipbuilders after the Naval Shipbuilding College (NSC) reached a major milestone in preparing them for their careers. Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price said the achievement demonstrated how the Morrison government has been working to deliver a generation of jobs in the sector. The college was established by the federal government in 2018 out of the 2017 Navy Shipbuilding Plan partnering with education and training providers to grow Australia’s ship...