- At-Sea Tests Aim to Improve Joint
Operations.
USS Tarawa hosts exercise to demonstrate Army-Navy interoperability Remembering to crouch and run to the safety of the wind-free hangar when deplaning is just one lesson that the Army took to heart when its pilots practiced landing helicopters aboard a large-deck ship. The USS Tarawa (LHA-1), an amphibious assault ship, ......
- The top government purchasers: Navy--buying ships becomes a family affair
The Navy kicked off a new era in ship design and construction this spring by awarding a multibillion-- dollar contract for building a family of surface combat vessels. Like the Army and the Air Force, the Navy believes that transforming itself into a 21 st century military force requires shelving ......
- Turbulent waters: ship construction costs endangerNavy's fleet expansion.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet. "The U.S. Navy is facing a numbers crunch," said Stuart Slade, senior naval editor at Forecast International, a Connecticut-based marketing research and consulting firm....
- Defense Logistics: GAO's Observations on
Maintenance Aspects of the Navy's Fleet Response
Plan.
GAO-04-724R June 18, 2004 The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Operation Iraqi Freedom have prompted major changes in the employment of naval forces around the globe. These two events resulted in an ultimate surging to deploy seven carrier strike groups and the largest amphibious task force assembled in ......
- Navy tests coastal warfare systems aboard new
Catamaran.
A new high-speed catamaran, just leased for $21.7 million, is helping the U.S. Navy decide what technologies will be most useful in coastal warfare. The Navy is seeking to develop a new class of littoral combat ships, which will feature an advanced and a shallow draft, and be able to ......
- Editor's corner.
Can the Defense Department reform its cumbersome logistics operations? Army Lt. Gen. Henry T. Glisson avows that changes are on the way, and that the military services will see significant improvements within the next several years. Glisson is the director of the $17 billion Defense Logistics Agency, which is responsible ......
- For the first time, Navy will launch weapons from surveillance drones.
Just like the Air Force, the Army and the CIA, the Navy soon could be deploying its own armed drones. To that end, the Navy will request funds in fiscal year 2010 to begin outfitting its new surveillance drone with kinetic weapons. The drone, which is scheduled to enter service ......