By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain Op-Ed) Yesterday, following encouraging remarks from the Secretaries of Transportation and the Navy, Senator Mark Kelly delivered a compelling speech at the National Maritime Day…
https://gcaptain.com/op-ed-senator-kelly-throws-u-s-maritime-industry-a-lifeline-lets-seize-it/
Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Representative Mike Walz (R.-Fla.) along with Senator Marco Rubio (R.-Fla,) and Representative John Garamendi (D-Calif.), have released a roadmap for revitalizing the U.S. maritime sector. Entitled “Congressional Guidance for a National Maritime Strategy” it provides a comprehensive vision for planning guidance, strategic objectives, and actionable steps to revitalize the U.S. maritime sector.
The legislators believe that, in an era of great power competition,...
A group of bipartisan, bicameral lawmakers led by U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-06) and Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have issued a letter to President Biden urging him to fortify the…
https://gcaptain.com/bipartisan-lawmakers-urge-president-biden-to-strengthen-u-s-maritime-power/
During a speech this week at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro called for a “new maritime statecraft” strategy…
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The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has selected the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) to conduct a study that will be used to inform a new national maritime strategy….
https://gcaptain.com/marad-picks-research-partner-for-national-maritime-strategy-study/
The Military Sealift Command maritime prepositioning ship USNS Sgt. William R. Button (T-AK 3012) is moored off the coast of Latvia for the Saber Strike 17 Maritime Prepositioning Force offload operations on May, 25, 2017. US Navy photo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A National Maritime Strategy, expected to address the various deficiencies facing the nation’s sealift capacity, is finished and awaiting final approval, a top sealift official said last week.
Once implemented, the National Maritime Strategy...
https://news.usni.org/2020/02/25/marad-national-military-sealift-strategy-expected-soon
U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Monday supporting transition of active duty service members and veterans into the United States Merchant Marine. Under the order, it will be the policy of the United States to support practices and programs ensuring that members of the...
The U.S. Department of Transportation is yet to finalize national maritime strategies that were called were called for in two separate mandates by Congress in 2014, delaying providing decision-makers the information they needed to address challenges facing the U.S. flag fleet, the GAO said in a...