“The contract is valued at more than $20B for the full-scale development phase. The contract procures multiple test aircraft for ground, airworthiness, systems, and weapons integration testing,” reads the announcement.

As the newly created deputy chief of naval operations of sustainment, Vice Adm. Scott Gray, who will report on Oct. 5, will be tasked with continuously pushing for funding for shore infrastructure, including barracks and piers.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the pilot crashed roughly six miles northwest of Morro Bay and was rescued by the Navy. USCG did not know his condition. 

U.S. Navy leaders promised Tuesday to apply “lessons learned” from the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record-setting deployment in preparing another aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, for its assignment in the Middle East next month.

An international warship competition could include building up to two of the ships in foreign shipyards before transitioning to domestic yards as part of the Trump administration’s push to rapidly expand the fleet, three industry sources familiar with the deliberations confirmed to USNI News this week. The move would break with more than a century of U.S. domestic naval construction.

The U.S. Navy has not fully mitigated attack submarine fleet maintenance and other challenges affecting readiness. Over the last 10 years, the U.S. Navy has lost more than 15,000 operational days due to maintenance delays and idle time on active attack submarines. These delays resulted in an estimated $3.4 billion in costs to sustain crews and submarines that provided no operational capability.

Officially designated the AIM-242 long-range air-to-air missile, the sea service revealed the new Malice system over the weekend at the Tailhook Association Naval Aviation Symposium in Reno, Nev. RTX, formerly known as Raytheon, is the lead contractor behind Malice.

During the four days without power, Benfold lost air conditioning, galleys, toilets and showers. Potable water was also affected by the power failure.

 

President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy on Thursday to remove the electromagnetic catapult system on aircraft carriers to launch fighter planes and revert back to using catapult systems, a move that officials and experts argue would raise costs in the process.

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The swap in fighter jet launch system was panned by some Senate Democrats, telling the president to “stick to what he knows best — ballrooms, bankruptcy and bulls—.”

The Trump administration's plan for the US Navy to build its largest battleships since World War II comes with a whopping price tag of $275 billion, and US shipyards may not have the capacity to build them, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office says.

According to the latest press release, the Navy reported that with the decommissioning of the littoral combat ship USS “Fort Worth”—identified as an operational and testing platform—“the Navy is redirecting investments toward modernizing the remaining LCS inventory with enhanced capabilities.” From the beginning of their service with the Navy, the ships of the LCS Program exhibited technical and operational deficiencies and limitations, a situation that led to the early retirement of several units due to their operational unsustainability and maintenance costs.

From the Civil War to more recent conflicts, the Navy’s history has been plagued by underwater mines. Legacy vessels are often difficult to protect in hostile environments near shores and depend on human operators to render mines harmless, said Steven Wills, navalist at the Center for Maritime Strategy.