Navy Refining Unmanned Surface, Underwater Vehicle Command Structures

Sailors assigned to Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron 1 (UUVRON 1), mobilized with Undersea Rescue Command (URC), perform maintenance on a Bluefin-12D, an unmanned underwater vehicle, on board the Norwegian construction support vessel Skandi Patagonia near URC’s submarine rescue chamber in November 2017. US Navy photo.

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy is taking steps to mature organizations that oversee unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, with the Surface Development Squadron (SURFDEVRON) 1...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/14/navy-refining-unmanned-surface-underwater-vehicle-command-structures

Modly: Navy Current Warship Mix Is Not Optimal for Future Fight

USS Russell (DDG-59), left, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91), center, and the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Omaha (LCS-12) travel in formation. US Navy Photo

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy has concentrated more capability – and therefore more cost – onto a smaller number of ships, and that force design may not work well in a high-end fight against a peer adversary, the under secretary of the Navy said last week.

Thomas Modly, the number-two...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/28/modly-navy-current-warship-mix-is-not-optimal-for-future-fight