Columbia-class submarine

Bartlett Maritime Pitches New Plan to Repair U.S. Attack Submarines

USS Oregon (SSN-788) pierside at General Dynamics Electric Boat on Feb. 28, 2022. USNI News Photo

Bartlett Maritime submitted a news submarine overhaul proposal to the Navy that claims it will cut the time attack boats are out of service by 100 days. 

Bartlett, founded in 2019, plans to concentrate component repair at two new facilities in northeastern Ohio and buy a specialized foundry at an unspecified location in order to shorten the timeline.

The comapany said in a release that the location...

https://news.usni.org/2023/08/08/bartlett-maritime-pitches-new-plan-to-repair-u-s-attack-submarines

Fiscal Year 2024 Department of the Navy Budget Materials

The following are the Department of the Navy Fiscal Year 2024 budget summary materials released this week.

From the report

America is a maritime nation. American naval primacy is essential to meeting the challenges we face today. The seas are the lifeblood of our economy, our national security, and our way of life. With 90 percent of global commerce traveling by sea, the Department of the Navy safeguards the world’s economy from hostile nations and organizations that threaten international...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/16/fiscal-year-2024-department-of-the-navy-budget-materials

Navy Issues General Dynamics Electric Boat $5.1B Contract Mod for Columbia-Class Submarine Program

Artist’s rendering of the Columbia-class SSBN submarine. US Navy Image

The Navy on Wednesday issued General Dynamics Electric Boat a $5.1 billion contract modification for the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine contract.

The modification is for spare parts, long lead items for missile tubes, making the missile tubes, sustainment work both for Columbia and the United Kingdom’s Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine program, and other advanced procurement items, according to the...

https://news.usni.org/2022/12/22/navy-issues-general-dynamics-electric-boat-5-1b-contract-mod-for-columbia-class-submarine-program

U.S. Pacific Allies Want to Work Together to Blunt Chinese Nuclear Threat

Chinese DF-41 missiles in 2020.

As China builds up its nuclear weapons arsenal and expands its conventional military forces, United States allies in the Pacific are asking Washington for an extended deterrence alliance in the region, three security experts said Wednesday.

Toshi Yoshihara, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessment, said China has played up the idea that extended deterrence “tends to be very fragile” when a crisis arises. Beijing believes it could split...

https://news.usni.org/2022/11/10/u-s-pacific-allies-want-to-work-together-to-blunt-chinese-nuclear-threat

Navy Could Extend Life of Five Ohio-class Ballistic Missile Boats to Hedge Against Columbia Program Delays

USS Alaska (SSBN-732) arrived at the Port of Gibraltar on June 28, 2021. US Navy Photo

ARLINGTON, Va. – Five of the Navy’s oldest submarines are candidates for a three-year life extension, service officials said on Tuesday.

The 18-month repair period would target the five Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines, or SSBNs, to support a requirement for the Navy to surge 10 boomers as a strategic nuclear contingency, program executive officer for strategic submarines Rear Adm. Scott Pappano...

https://news.usni.org/2022/11/01/navy-could-extend-life-of-five-ohio-class-ballistic-missile-boats-to-hedge-against-columbia-program-delays

Keeping Strategic Weapons Programs Funded Biggest Threat to U.S. Nuclear Triad, Says Panel

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:13 a.m. Pacific Time on Oct. 2, 2019. US Air Force Photo

The biggest threat to modernizing the nuclear triad is to keep sustained modernization funding over multiple years and presidential administrations, a panel of national security experts told a key Senate panel on Tuesday.

The Air Force and the Navy are in the midst of replacing major decades old era strategic weapons programs. The Air Force...

https://news.usni.org/2022/09/21/keeping-strategic-weapons-programs-funded-biggest-threat-to-u-s-nuclear-triad-says-panel

Growing Work Force Largest Challenge to Columbia-Class Sub Programs, Says Navy Official

Artist’s rendering of the Columbia-class SSBN submarine. US Navy Image

Having the right work force is the biggest challenge affecting the Columbia-class ballistic submarine program’s ability to stay on schedule, the Navy’s senior officer in charge of strategic submarines said Wednesday.

Rear Adm. Scott Pappano, speaking at an Air Force Association Mitchell Institute event, said, “we need skilled trades feeding our industrial base.”

He added it was important that the two submarine shipbuilders...

https://news.usni.org/2022/08/25/growing-work-force-largest-challenge-to-columbia-class-sub-programs-says-navy-official

GAO Report on Risk in Defense Industrial Base

The following is the July 7, 2022, Government Accountability Office report, Defense Industrial Base DoD Should Take Actions to Strengthen Its Risk Mitigation Approach.

From the report

The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Industrial Base Policy office does not yet
have a consolidated and comprehensive strategy to mitigate risks to the
industrial base—the companies that develop and manufacture technologies and
weapon systems for DOD. The office is using a combination of four previously
issued reports...

https://news.usni.org/2022/07/08/gao-report-on-risk-in-defense-industrial-base

Navy FY 2023 Budget Highlights Book

The following is the Fiscal Year 2023 Department of the Navy budget highlights book.

From the report

Overview

The United States is a maritime nation: our security and prosperity depend on the seas. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has built and advanced a rules-based international system through shared commitments with our allies and partners. Free and open access to the world’s oceans ensure the delivery of the resources required to protect America’s economy and security. Today,...

https://news.usni.org/2022/04/15/navy-fy-2023-budget-highlights-book

Department of the Navy Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Materials

The following are the Fiscal Year 2023 budget materials from the Department of the Navy and an unclassified summary of the 2022 National Defense Strategy released tandem March 28, 2022, with the FY 2023 Presidential Budget. The Navy is expected to release more detailed budget material that have been delayed from the initial release.

From the reports

The Department of the Navy’s (DON) FY 2023 President’s Budget (PB23) request is $230.8B, an increase of $9.1B from the FY 2022 enacted budget (with...

https://news.usni.org/2022/03/29/department-of-the-navy-fiscal-year-2023-budget-materials

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