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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 July 2010 Grace V. Jean	Shipyards Speed Up Submarine Production Amid Concerns About Navy's Future Budgets Beginning next year, the Navy plans to double the production rate to two submarines per year for $2.5 billion apiece.
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 May 2009 Jean & Erwin	Navy Shifts Shipbuilding Dollars to Mid-Tier Yards Most of the Navy's large warships are built at the nation's "big four" yards in Avondale, La.; Pascagoula, Miss.; Bath Iron Works, Maine; and NASSCO, Calif.
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean	Smarter Shipbuilding Could Help Ease Navy's Budget Troubles The 374-foot USS Freedom, which was delivered to the Navy last fall, was Marinette Marine Corp.'s largest and most complex ship construction project
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 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 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 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 June 2011 Grace V. Jean	Shipyard Pursuing Cost-Cutting Measures For Next-Generation Ballistic Missile Submarine One of the Navy's most expensive purchases -- the next-generation ballistic missile submarine -- is still years away, but a shipyard is working on the preliminary design with an eye towards shaving close to $1 billion off the expected $5.7 billion price tag.
National Defense September 2012 Dan Parsons	Budget Crunch Could Jeopardize New Carrier Procurement With uncertain economic waters ahead, there may be a growing reticence within the Defense Department to commit to buying future aircraft carriers, its single largest procurement item.
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 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 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 April 2013 Stew Magnuson	New Coast Guard Cutter Sparks Fierce Competition Among Shipbuilders It is one of the most highly anticipated military shipbuilding programs in the foreseeable future, and it has nothing to do with the Navy.
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 June 2014 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Embarks on Its Costliest Ship Buying Program The Coast Guard has one piece remaining in its long effort to modernize its aircraft and ships: the offshore patrol cutter.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Shipbuilder Wrings Out Savings Through Yard Improvements, Partnerships Navy officials have come down hard on shipbuilding companies to cut out the fat where they can on soaring construction costs. One U.S. shipyard is embracing the ultra-efficient business practices of South Korean builders.
National Defense October 2015 Ray Mabus	The Real Numbers Behind Today's Fleet What should Americans conclude when they hear conflicting claims about the U.S. Navy being too large or shrinking too much?
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 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 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 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 November 2007 Grace Jean	Shipbuilders Forecast Exodus of Submarine Designers Builders of Navy submarines for years have tried to convince admirals and members of Congress that trouble lies ahead.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.
National Defense June 2011 Stew Magnuson	East/West Divide Grows In the International Navy Shipbuilding Business Despite the current economic slump, the worldwide market for navy ships is expected to grow, market analysts said.
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 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 April 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Energy Reform Initiatives Raise Concerns Among Shipbuilders The secretary of the Navy's announcement last fall of several initiatives to wean the sea service off fossil fuels has generated excitement but also some trepidation among energy researchers and defense contractors.
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 December 2015 Allyson Versprille	Augmented Reality Could Help Solve Ford-Class Carrier Cost Woes Executives at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, the Huntington Ingalls division that is constructing the Navy's next-generation Ford-class supercarriers, said new technology employing digital design and construction could help reduce labor hours and lower acquisition costs for the program
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.
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Adm. Roughead: Shipbuilding Not a Broken Industry The chief of naval operations ensures the public that innovation is being used to develop new navy vessels.
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 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 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 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 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 April 2012 Stew Magnuson	Shipbuilding Industry Fears Cuts to Submarine Programs For a time, submarine manufacturers and their suppliers will have it good.
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.
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 February 2012 Harvey M. Sapolsky	Defense Industrial Policy Myths Debunked Looming budget austerity raises concerns about the future health of the U.S. defense industrial base. But the coming crisis also offers an opportunity to prune the deadwood.
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 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.