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National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson	Navy Can Text Stealthy Submarines 24/7 For years, the Navy has wanted to communicate with its submarines as they travel underwater at great depths.
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 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 April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	As the Cost of Sailors Rises, Navy Finds Ways to Get Them Off Ships Navy ships in the future may go to sea with fewer, but perhaps happier sailors.
National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean	Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce.
National Defense April 2008 Grace V. Jean	A Makeover for Top-Heavy Navy Ships? If the work of Office of Naval Research scientists comes to fruition, antennas on the tops of ships might one day disappear as radio frequency apertures are integrated into the hulls and superstructures of the ships themselves.
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams	SATCOM Hardware Will Be Downsized on Navy Ships The Navy wants to consolidate seven SATCOM programs into two: the Naval Multiband Terminal and a commercial broadband service, known as CBSP.
National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean	Submariners Going 'Back to Basics' The Navy struggles to adequately train mariners to use the technology aboard ships and submarines.
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 November 2011 Eric Beidel	Navy Brings Smartphones Aboard Carriers The service members will be able to use the phones to navigate their way around a carrier, as well as locate and track anyone on the ship in real time, officials said.
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 January 2004 Harold Kennedy	U.S.-Led Coalition Seeks To Block Weapon Shipments The United States and 10 other nations have embarked upon a controversial plan to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction by blocking suspect shipments by air, land or sea.
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.
Popular Mechanics September 29, 2008 David Axe	4 Fronts for Pirate-Navy Battle as U.S. Descends on Captured Ship The U.S. Navy's response to a pirated small arms cargo vessel may signal a new stage in the cat-and-mouse game of modern-day piracy.
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 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 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 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 2010 Grace V. Jean	Duty Aboard the Littoral Combat Ship: 'Grueling but Manageable' The Navy will soon decide which version of the Littoral Combat Ship it will buy. Selecting the ship model, however, is only the beginning of what could be a long, arduous adjustment for sailors who will be serving aboard these new vessels.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy Probes Commercial Ship Operators for Repair Tips In its quest to preserve and prolong the life of its surface ships, the Navy is seeking to take advantage of technologies and practices resident in the commercial shipping world.
National Defense December 2011 Anand Datla	Russian Navy Ponders Investments In Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships The Russian navy recently announced plans to build either a nuclear powered destroyer or cruiser -- depending on translation -- by 2016.
National Defense May 2007 Grace Jean	Recruits Virtually Experience the High-Tech Navy With sophisticated warships poised to enter its fleet during the next several years, the Navy is relying more and more on technology to train sailors.
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 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 June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Shipbuilders Should Worry About Second-Hand Ship Supply, Study Says As more nations continue to downsize their navies, experts predict that surplus ships will inundate the world market, likely at the expense of new ship construction.
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 2011 Grace V. Jean	Aluminum 'Truck' Joint High Speed Vessel: Great Potential, But Questions Remain The Defense Department this decade will build a fleet of new high-speed aluminum ships specifically designed to shuttle hundreds of troops and tons of cargo around a theater of operations. Analysts say the joint high speed vessel would alleviate pressures on an overtaxed fleet.
National Defense June 2006 David Axe	Navy's Smallest Fighting Ships Prove Littoral Warfare Concepts The Navy's smallest fighting ships -- 180-ft Cyclone-class patrol boats -- are blazing the way for a future fleet of littoral combat ships.
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.
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 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 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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Edward J. Walsh	Shipboard Electronics Tune up for Future Conflicts Navy pushes smart engineering and open-systems architectures for the shipboard electronics and electro-optics aboard the nation's combat fleet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007 John Keller	Ocean Mines Have Nowhere to Hide The U.S. Navy prepares to deploy several new mine-detection and disposal systems that employ a wide variety of electro-optic, signal-processing, and machine-automation technologies.
National Defense May 2007 Grace Jean	Scientists Bemoan Loss of Exploration Vessel The NR-1 small nuclear-powered submarine has been plying the world's oceans on scientific missions, but is schedule to be inactivated late next year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	New Ship Takes Lead in Countermine and Anti-Submarine Warfare The Navy's Littoral Combat Ship will use a broad range of autonomous and semiautonomous surface and subsurface vehicles, as well as advanced networking communications, for use against terrorists as well as conventional foes.
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.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Multinational Naval Exercises Welcome in Southeast Asia In an effort to increase force interoperability and security in Southeast Asia, the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet participates in a series of bi-lateral exercises with other navies in the region. The planner behind some of these exercises is the Logistics Group, Western Pacific.
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 November 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Command Expands Commercial IT Acquisitions The Pentagon has set out to replace outdated military information systems with commercial products that offer far better performance at lower cost.
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 December 2013 Valerie Insinna	LCS Training Strategy Mixes Education and Video Games Earlier this year, Cubic Advanced Learning Solutions was awarded $300 million worth of contracts to provide video game-style training to sailors for the littoral combat ship crews.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Ed Walsh	Navy looks to technology to balance budget cuts Transformational plans for the seagoing service call for vast levels of wired and wireless networking of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, communications systems, RF antennas, and more, to offset planned cutbacks in new platform development.
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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 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.
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.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Roadmap Calls For No-Nonsense Research Far from being disconnected from the practical concerns of deployed forces, Navy scientists are making it their business to be attuned to the demands of sailors and Marines.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Ships' Cost Could Sink Plans For Floating Military Bases The success of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps forward-looking concept of deploying bases at sea relies heavily on the development of a new class of cargo ships.