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National Defense
October 2005
Grace Jean |
Moving Nanotechnology Research Into Market Remains a Challenge U.S. investments in nanotechnology have escalated into the billions of dollars in recent years. Yet moving the resulting discoveries and materials into the market remains one of the industry's toughest challenges.   |
National Defense
October 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Improved Metals Applied to Marine Vehicle A process using advanced nano-science in metal processing may provide the material for a tough, lightweight Marine expeditionary vehicle, Navy researchers predict. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 57
David Bradley |
Smart Materials Self Repair Dumb materials succumb to rust, but smart materials might be able to heal themselves, thanks to researchers in Europe. |
National Defense
July 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Navy Gradually Embracing Composite Materials in Ships The Navy claims that its next generation destroyer, the DD(X), will be the service's first major commitment to composite construction. |
National Defense
March 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Navy Surface Fleet Faces Rough Waters Trying to Maintain Ships The service is trying to revamp its maintenance policies to include more inspections, new technology and a shift in culture. They will likely have to deal with budget cuts that make it more difficult to maintain ships, Navy and industry officials said. |
National Defense
May 2014
Dan Parsons |
A Fresh Coat of Paint Can Save Navy Billions Spending their operational lives in or near the ocean, Navy ships and Marine Corps vehicles are especially susceptible to the corrosive effects of salt water. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009
Jill Jusko |
A Tougher Ceramic Taking their cues from nature, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have mimicked the structure of mother of pearl to create a tougher ceramic. |
National Defense
January 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Trident Program Intent On Avoiding Past Shipbuilding Pitfalls As the Navy begins to design its next ballistic-missile submarine, officials caution that the service must avoid shipbuilding practices of the past that have led to cost overruns and delays. |
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
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. |
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
October 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Military Ponders Future of Nanotech While nano-sciences offer an array of potentially useful technology for the Defense Department, not all military researchers have jumped on this bandwagon. |
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
August 2009
Jason Jacks |
Navy Looks To New Hull Coating to Keep Barnacles at Bay The Office of Naval Research is developing a new hull coating that the Navy hopes will reduce the build-up of barnacles and other crustaceans on ships' hulls. |
National Defense
April 2013
Dan Parsons |
Small Boats Mean Big Business for Shipbuilders Big ships -- aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines -- get all the glory, but it is the Navy's smallest vessels that could prove pivotal in future conflicts. |
National Defense
May 2011
Stew Magnuson |
New Applications, Markets Sought For Underwater Communication System A new technology designed to communicate with submarines as they travel stealthily at great depths and speeds is now being looked at as a means to send messages to special operations divers and commands to unmanned underwater vehicles. |
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
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
November 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots. |
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. |
Fast Company
March 1, 2007
Fara Warner |
Sally's Dreamcoat Imagine a world where you never have to scrape ice off your windshield -- and where car paints don't pollute. The promise of Sally Ramsey's technology is what makes Ecology Coatings rather more interesting than just another startup. |
Popular Mechanics
August 28, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
5 Reasons the U.S. Navy's Scared (and What They're Doing About It) It's a well-known rule of thumb in military circles: protection from the things that scare the Pentagon receive R&D money. |
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
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
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 |
