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National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	China's Navy Takes Great Leap Forward China's navy is growing, analysts said. And it's not only the number of ships increasing. Modernization of its fleets is going hand in hand with new types of vessels including the stated goal of building indigenous aircraft carriers.
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 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 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 2016 Stew Magnuson	China Taking Steps to Make Aircraft Carrier Fully Operational The carriers are part of a master plan to transform the nation from a "continental power" to a "maritime power," experts at a recent Heritage Foundation discussion said.
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 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 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 November 2006 Grace Jean	Navy Leaders to Articulate Current and Future Missions Recent efforts by the Navy to deploy forces for ground combat and engage in other non-traditional duties are signs that the service intends to be relevant in the U.S. war on terrorism.
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 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 November 2012 Dan Parsons	U.S. Pacific Shift Aims to Manage, Not Challenge China's Rise Defense Department leaders are set to manage a strategic "shift" or "pivot" that has been in works for a while, but will accelerate once U.S. troops leave Afghanistan in 2014.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John Keller	U.S. Military Stretched Thin at Just the Wrong Time Pressure is mounting from all sides to reduce spending for sophisticated U.S. military equipment and weapons, and it's coming at the wrong time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller	An Appeal for New Emphasis on Antisubmarine Warfare With the growing submarine threat from often undetermined adversaries, let's hope a renewed emphasis on antisubmarine warfare (ASW) technology isn't too little, too late.
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 April 2013 Stew Magnuson	When It Comes to the Navy's Destroyers, It's a Numbers Game Providing the coverage the Navy believes it needs to patrol the world's oceans is being made more complicated by a chronic shortage of destroyers, analysts have said.
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 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 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 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 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 August 2015 Jon Harper	Plan to Fund Ohio Replacement Submarine Reaches Tipping Point Much hangs on the outcome of the high stakes budget battle playing out in Washington, D.C., which will shape the future of Navy shipbuilding and potentially have major effects on the other services and the industrial base.
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 April 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Washington Pulse Although the Navy does not have the equivalent of a "Comanche" on the horizon, all programs are under review in preparation for the fiscal year 2006 budget submission, said the chief of naval operations.
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 January 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Bases at Sea: No Longer Unthinkable Staging a military campaign the size of Operation Iraqi Freedom entirely from ships at sea---with no access to land bases---would seem inconceivable to most defense planners. Nonetheless, the notion is gaining momentum at the Pentagon.
National Defense June 2014 Dan Parsons	South China Sea Dispute Shaping Up as Coast Guard Showdown The U.S. Navy risks sparking an international incident by using warships to check China's westward advance.
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Diesel-Electric Submarines, the U.S. Navy's Latest Annoyance Nations in the western Pacific have begun to acquire stealthy diesel-electric submarines, which could one day threaten U.S. access to strategic coastal areas of the world or interrupt the flow of commerce around the globe.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Sparks Speculation, Concern Designed to be launched from land and strike a moving ship at sea by employing a maneuverable reentry vehicle during a regional conflict, it has been called a "game changing weapon."
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons	In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	`Conversation with the Country' yields a cacophony of opinions At the Navy's first "Conversation with the Country" maritime strategy symposium here at the Naval War College, handheld polling devices were distributed to audience members, who were asked for opinions on how they viewed the Navy's role in the nation's defense.
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 September 2007 Grace Jean	Navy still Years Away From Deploying Attack Drones Aboard Aircraft Carriers Given the Navy's checkered history of flying drones aboard ships, it's not surprising that its first pursuit of an unmanned aircraft geared for carrier operations has progressed cautiously and even with a hint of trepidation.
National Defense March 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Government Action Needed to Fix Troubled Shipbuilding Sector The limited commercial market, combined with a decline in Navy orders, has resulted in excess production capacity, underused larger shipyards and high vessel costs.
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 2012 Thomas A. Benes	Navy, Marine Corps Rethink Expeditionary Warfare Expeditionary warfare is evolving to meet the demands of a future beyond the Iraq-Afghanistan conflicts. The Navy is rebalancing its forward deployment posture, and the Marine Corps is in transition from land-centric warfare.
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 November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Spending Will Target Current and Future Navy Fleet The Navy should direct its future science, research and technology spending to both improving the current fleet and designing next-generation systems, officials say.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Commanders Grapple With Changing Missions, Smaller Fleet As the size of the fleet continues to shrink, decision makers at the Pentagon are grappling with how to reshape a Navy that is fighting unconventional wars largely with Cold War weapon systems.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Facing Uncertainty, Navy Contemplates `Alternative Futures' Navy officials worry that fleet expansion efforts could be wrecked if the Defense Department cuts naval budgets to pay for the addition of thousands of troops to the Army and Marine Corps over the next four years.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys.
National Defense June 2011 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Challenges Loom Large in the 2020s Builders of U.S. Navy ships are attempting to rein in costs that have doubled over the last 20 years.
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 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 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Threats To Aircraft Carriers Bolster Case for Unmanned Combat Jets The dominance of U.S. aircraft carriers, however, could be one day challenged if future enemies arm themselves with accurate, long-range missiles.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.
National Defense December 2013 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Sequester Causing Lasting Damage to Defense Sequestration, if continued on present course, will result in serious damage and degradation to U.S. military capability and to our national security writ large.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Shrewd Tactics Underpin Navy Strategy to Defeat Diesel Submarines Navy planners anticipate that adversaries will try to deny U.S. forces access to key strategic coastal areas by deploying quiet diesel-electric submarines.
National Defense July 2015 Philip H. Cullom	Being Energy Smart Creates More Combat Capability Energy is at the core of U.S. Navy capabilities. Without nuclear power or liquid fuels, Navy ships cannot operate. Without charged batteries, SEALs' radios and night vision goggles are useless.
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.