Tom Cruise, Hollywood legend and the U.S. Navy’s 36th Honorary Naval Aviator, has added another accolade to his storied career—but this time, it’s not for his on-screen performances. The actor…
https://gcaptain.com/hollywood-maverick-tom-cruise-receives-navys-top-civilian-honor/
HII (NYSE: HII) christened the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800) at its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, Dec, 7.
The ship’s sponsors are the six women of the historic group known as the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas during desegregation. NNS honored all nine members during Saturday’s ceremony.
What a privilege to join the christening ceremony of one of our newest submarines the USS...
Under a plan approved Oct. 30 by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, and disclosed by the Navy yesterday, the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC) is to sideline 17 ships to ease the stress on its civilian mariners.
“That number’s based on again the number of mariners that we need to get us to 95% [manning],” MSC’s commander Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck told reporters in a call Thursday morning. “It is aligning the force so that we are most ready and that we are getting after the fleet...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/navy-will-sideline-17-msc-ships-to-ease-mariner-stress/
The U.S. Navy has announced plans to extend the service life of three Ticonderoga-class cruisers beyond their expected operational timeline. The USS Gettysburg (CG 64), USS Chosin (CG 65), and…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-extends-life-of-ticonderoga-class-cruisers/
Representative John Garamendi (D-CA-08), the leading Democrat on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, recently joined Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro at the San Francisco Fleet Week…
https://gcaptain.com/garamendi-charts-bold-course-for-american-maritime-renaissance/
The U.S. Navy has achieved a significant breakthrough in maritime combat readiness by successfully demonstrating the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method (TRAM) on a warship in open waters for the first…
By Bruce Kimbrell (Policy Op-Ed) Inspired by his vision for a “New, Bold Maritime Statecraft,” Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro spent the last year offering a master class on…
https://gcaptain.com/carlos-del-toro-americas-maritime-statecraft-evangelist-secnav/
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) reports that the Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding Division amphibious ship procurement contracts totaling $9,472,132,620. They cover the procurement of one America-class amphibious assault ship (LHA) and three San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (LPD) ships.
The award was executed across two separate contracts to utilized a multi-ship procurement approach. By using this strategy, as authorized by Congress, says...
In a move that sees the Navy partnering with private equity and private industry, the Alabama Shipyard site in Mobile, Ala., has been acquired by the United Submarine Alliance (USA) Qualified Opportunity Fund (the USA Fund) and renamed the Mobile Naval Yard.
The USA Fund has been launched by private equity firm CapZone Impact Investments, which today said that the fund will “serve as a platform between the U.S. Navy, investors, suppliers, contractors and local leaders to harness the power of the...