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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 November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Roadmap Calls For No-Nonsense Research Far from being disconnected from the practical concerns of deployed forces, Navy scientists are making it their business to be attuned to the demands of sailors and Marines.
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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh	The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy Probes Commercial Ship Operators for Repair Tips In its quest to preserve and prolong the life of its surface ships, the Navy is seeking to take advantage of technologies and practices resident in the commercial shipping world.
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National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner	All-Electric Ship Could Begin to Take Shape By 2012 As part of an ambitious technology plan for the Navy fleet of the future, the Office of Naval Research is exploring ways to power all-electric ships.
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National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy Rethinks How It Maintains Surface Combatants Facing readiness problems in surface combatants, the Navy is redoubling its efforts to improve fleet maintenance.
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National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Navy Rethinking Mine Warfare Navy officials are now warning that potential adversaries such as China are viewing sea-mines as a viable weapon to deny access to U.S. vessels.
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 April 2015 Valerie Insinna	Questions Remain About Navy's Modified Littoral Combat Ship Instead of cutting down the program of record, the service will procure the full 52-ship buy, and the last 20 ships will be outfitted with beefed up weapons, sensors and armor, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced in December.
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.
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National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean	More Amphibious Ships Are Needed, Marines Contend Marine Corps leaders have stepped up pressure on the Navy to increase the size of the amphibious vessel fleet.
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 August 2009 Jason Jacks	Navy Looks To New Hull Coating to Keep Barnacles at Bay The Office of Naval Research is developing a new hull coating that the Navy hopes will reduce the build-up of barnacles and other crustaceans on ships' hulls.
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National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Greater Demand for 'Soft Power' Reveals Shortfalls in The Navy They seek naval expertise in nontraditional missions such as training foreign navies to protect their coastlines.
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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.
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 November 2014 Valerie Insinna	Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats.
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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.
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National Defense August 2011 Grace V. Jean	Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce.
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