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National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Fleet Expansion Hinges On Littoral Combat Ship The Navy took its new warship, the littoral combat ship, from concept to reality in record speed. The service, however, may take years to define the vessel's future missions and develop its various weapon systems.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Littoral Combat Ship Could Slip Behind Schedule as Price Tag Nears $500 Million In the midst of a contentious debate about the Navy's embattled littoral combat ship program, the service's coveted warship has come under fire by its own supporters on Capitol Hill.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Navy Rethinking Mine Warfare Navy officials are now warning that potential adversaries such as China are viewing sea-mines as a viable weapon to deny access to U.S. vessels.
National Defense December 2003 Sandra I. Erwin	Littoral Combat Ship Sensors Pose Integration Challenges The LCS is a new warship being designed specifically for coastal operations, in particular anti-submarine warfare, maritime patrol, and mine detection and clearance. It must be integrated with a dispersed force of smaller networked platforms with distributed unmanned sensors.
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean	Jury Still Out on Future of Littoral Combat Ship The Navy's littoral combat ship is under fire by lawmakers who are threatening to pull the plug at a time when the Obama administration is prepared to commit long-term funding to the program.
National Defense April 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Littoral Combat Ship to Share Duties with Coast Guard On her maiden deployment, the Navy's first littoral combat ship is carrying a surface warfare package that includes maritime security boats, boarding team equipment and berthing modules.
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Navy Must Close Budget Gap To Build Future Fleet Amid budget constraints and rising shipbuilding costs, the Navy faces a significant challenge in building its future force, according to naval analysts.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control.
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Ship Construction Costs Endanger Navy's Fleet Expansion With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Lockheed Martin Tries to Lure International Customers for Littoral Combat Ship Lockheed Martin Corp. is advertising a "multi-mission" variant of the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship here in hopes of garnering international customers.
National Defense August 2014 Dan Parsons	Littoral Combat Ship Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced The Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, multi-billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive surface combatant.
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna	Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Downsizing Force to Pay for New Ships The desired expansion of the fleet--from 292 to about 375 ships--would be financed largely with cutbacks in personnel.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Seeks to Avert Precipitous Decline in the Size of the Fleet An ambitious Navy plan to expand the size of the fleet not only assumes a considerable surge in spending, but also a fundamental shift in the preparation and execution of ship programs, senior officials say.
National Defense May 2005 Sandra Erwin	Shipbuilding Strategy Makes Sure Bet on Uncertain Future War-strained Pentagon budgets, rising shipbuilding costs and inconsistent messages by the Navy's leadership are conspiring to bring about what could be a dramatic downsizing in the Navy.
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Navy to Deploy Robotic Sub Hunters The Navy this fall plans to test new unmanned vehicles and sensors that were specially designed to detect diesel-electric submarines in coastal waters.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Pentagon Chief Deals Blow to Navy's LCS The Navy's littoral combat ship/frigate program took a major hit recently when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter suggested the service should slash planned procurement from 52 to 40 ships, a 23 percent cut.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Navy Ship Numbers for Asia-Pacific Shift Don't Add Up The Defense Department's strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region has gone hand in hand with a budget crunch, which in turn may test the Navy's ability to maintain a sufficient number of ships to carry out a global mission, analysts said.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Navy Working on 'Sci-Fi' Weapons The Navy's research-and-development dollars are going toward systems that will help the service stay ahead of advanced weaponry being developed by China and other potential adversaries.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Sets Sail on First Deployment As the littoral combat ship USS Freedom sets out for Singapore this spring, Navy officials are hoping a smooth first deployment will finally prove the ship's worth to critics.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Edward J. Walsh	Navy on the verge of major shipboard electronics breakthroughs Open-architecture and COTS technologies are critical for advances in ship propulsion, navigation and guidance, weapons control, ballistic missile defense, modular mission packages, and related systems for the nation's maritime defense.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Plans to Expand Fleet May Be Unrealistic Amid assurances by the Navy leadership that the latest shipbuilding blueprint is on a safe course, several analysts are sounding alarms. Unless the Navy begins to aggressively cut costs from its shipbuilding programs and pump much more money into these accounts, the plan could fail.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century.
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean	In the Navy's Forecast, a Shrinking Attack Submarine Fleet The Navy faces a 23-year period when the number of attack submarines in the fleet falls below the desired 48 ships.
National Defense May 2008 Grace Jean	New Ships are Breaking The Bank So the Navy is Fixing its Old Ones The ballooning costs of new ships are forcing the Navy to extend the service life of dozens of surface combatants that typically would have been decommissioned.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Surface Combatants Dominate Future Fleet The Navy plans to build a total of 88 surface combatants composed of 26 next-generation destroyers and cruisers and 62 Arleigh-Burke ships.
National Defense September 2004 Harold Kennedy	Costs, Delays Surface Again for New Attack Submarines Just a year after U.S. Navy officials assured Congress that they had taken steps to stem rising costs and production delays for the newest family of nuclear-powered attack submarines, they now concede that problems may not have gone away.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	China's Defense Build-up Merits Closer Attention From Navy, Say Analysts China has been beefing up its military might, and the rapid growth of its navy, in particular, is creating disagreements in the Defense Department over whether such a build-up ought to be perceived as a threat to U.S. interests in the Pacific.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy Rethinks How It Maintains Surface Combatants Facing readiness problems in surface combatants, the Navy is redoubling its efforts to improve fleet maintenance.
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy on a Mission to Cut the Cost of Aviation Expectations of a smaller force and leaner budgets set the tone for an ongoing, sweeping review of Navy aviation programs -- in favor of its shipbuilding plan.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Aviation Wish-Lists Send Mixed Signals The Navy and Air Force want more planes from Boeing and Lockheed Martin, but doing so would decrease funds from the Joint Strike Fighter program.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Diesel Submarines Irritant to U.S. Navy Following several years of relative inaction, the U.S. Navy is charging ahead with plans to neutralize what it sees as the growing menace of enemy diesel-electric submarines.
National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner	Navy's Mine-Hunting Technologies Wait for The Littoral Combat Ship The Navy has a new suite of anti-mine technologies designed to roll on and off a ship as needed. It just doesn't have the ship yet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh	The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Cost Goals for Littoral Combat Ship Overly Optimistic Navy Secretary Ray Mabus raised doubts in recent weeks that the service can meet a $460 million cost cap for the Littoral Combat Ship.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Are Autonomous Naval Vessels the Next Big Wave? Just as drones have proliferated in the skies, Navy and industry officials say unmanned systems also will take to the world's waterways in greater numbers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Littoral Combat Ship Troubles: Opportunity for Small Boat Companies? With the cost of the Navy's littoral combat ship skyrocketing and its funding in peril, some say the sea service ought to give serious consideration to acquiring cheaper boats that could complement a reduced fleet.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Marines Eye Littoral Combat Ship for Future Missions The increased demand for naval support in coastal areas, meanwhile, is creating a growing demand for ships that are even smaller than the LCS
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Navy Faces Expanded Mission Portfolio, Declining Resources In preparation for future shifts in military priorities and resources, Navy officials have gone to great lengths to spell out their vision for the service's roles in protecting U.S. interests and bolstering global security.
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Greater Demand for 'Soft Power' Reveals Shortfalls in The Navy They seek naval expertise in nontraditional missions such as training foreign navies to protect their coastlines.
National Defense March 2010 Grace V. Jean	Builders of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Pull Out All the Stops When the Navy later this year picks a winner to build its littoral combat ship, no matter which contractor is selected, the decision will be seen as a turning point for the troubled program.
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin	Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh	Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies.