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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.
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.
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.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Permanent Magnet Motor System Tested at U.S. Navy Land-Based Test Site DRS Technologies has completed full-power testing of its power-dense permanent magnet motor (PMM) and drive at the U.S. Navy's integrated power system (IPS) land-based test site (LBTS) in Philadelphia.
National Defense January 2015 Ben Freeman	Canceling the DDG-1000 Destroyer Program Was a Mistake The U.S. Navy's DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers are extraordinarily expensive, but ending the Zumwalt program in favor of buying upgraded versions of the decades-old Arleigh-Burke DDG-51 destroyers limits the Navy's capabilities without significantly reducing costs
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	As the Cost of Sailors Rises, Navy Finds Ways to Get Them Off Ships Navy ships in the future may go to sea with fewer, but perhaps happier sailors.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.
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 2005 Ed Walsh	Navy looks to technology to balance budget cuts Transformational plans for the seagoing service call for vast levels of wired and wireless networking of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, communications systems, RF antennas, and more, to offset planned cutbacks in new platform development.
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean	What It Will Take for the Navy to Deploy a 'Green' Carrier Strike Group Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced with much fanfare plans to deploy a "green" carrier strike group in 2016.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh	Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Ship Construction Costs Endanger Navy's Fleet Expansion With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet.
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.
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 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 January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean	Jury Still Out on Future of Littoral Combat Ship The Navy's littoral combat ship is under fire by lawmakers who are threatening to pull the plug at a time when the Obama administration is prepared to commit long-term funding to the program.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	General Atomics Picks Power Electronics From SatCon Technology for Navy The modular 40-megawatt power converter from SatCon Technology will be used to control a full-scale, superconducting DC Homopolar Motor (HPM).
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
National Defense December 2005 Grace Jean	Navy Must Close Budget Gap To Build Future Fleet Amid budget constraints and rising shipbuilding costs, the Navy faces a significant challenge in building its future force, according to naval analysts.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Fleet Expansion Hinges On Littoral Combat Ship The Navy took its new warship, the littoral combat ship, from concept to reality in record speed. The service, however, may take years to define the vessel's future missions and develop its various weapon systems.
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis.
National Defense December 2011 Anand Datla	Russian Navy Ponders Investments In Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships The Russian navy recently announced plans to build either a nuclear powered destroyer or cruiser -- depending on translation -- by 2016.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Downsizing Force to Pay for New Ships The desired expansion of the fleet--from 292 to about 375 ships--would be financed largely with cutbacks in personnel.
National Defense October 2015 Ray Mabus	The Real Numbers Behind Today's Fleet What should Americans conclude when they hear conflicting claims about the U.S. Navy being too large or shrinking too much?
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.
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 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.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Surface Combatants Dominate Future Fleet The Navy plans to build a total of 88 surface combatants composed of 26 next-generation destroyers and cruisers and 62 Arleigh-Burke ships.
National Defense April 2014 Stew Magnuson	Navy Ship Numbers for Asia-Pacific Shift Don't Add Up The Defense Department's strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific region has gone hand in hand with a budget crunch, which in turn may test the Navy's ability to maintain a sufficient number of ships to carry out a global mission, analysts said.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 Courtney E. Howard	U.S. Navy Gains Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle to Combat Underwater Mines Lockheed Martin has delivered the Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle (RMMV) to the U.S. Navy, boosting the mine countermeasures capability of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and littoral combat ships (LCS).
National Defense April 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Energy Reform Initiatives Raise Concerns Among Shipbuilders The secretary of the Navy's announcement last fall of several initiatives to wean the sea service off fossil fuels has generated excitement but also some trepidation among energy researchers and defense contractors.
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National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship.
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 March 2010 Grace V. Jean	Builders of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Pull Out All the Stops When the Navy later this year picks a winner to build its littoral combat ship, no matter which contractor is selected, the decision will be seen as a turning point for the troubled program.
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 August 2014 Dan Parsons	Littoral Combat Ship Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced The Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, multi-billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive surface combatant.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.
Popular Mechanics August 2008	Lockheed, Aussies Fight for Navy's Beachhead Brawler Ship Contract The Navy is considering the Australia-based Austal and Lockheed LCS for its Littoral Combat Ship.
National Defense August 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers.
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy's High-Speed Vessel Aids Relief Effort The HSV-2 Swift may be a forerunner of a next-generation fleet of fast, shallow-draft American-built transports capable of operating close along the shorelines of the world's hot spots.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard	USS Freedom Demonstrates Its Power Plant Can Handle Vessel's Sensors and Electronics U.S. Navy personnel powered up the nation's first littoral combat ship to demonstrate that the on-board electric plant can deliver the power required by the warship's advanced sensors and electronics systems.
National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna	Low Inventory, Low Readiness Plague Amphibious Ship Fleet Amphibious ships are among the most highly demanded vessels in the Navy's fleet, according to Expeditionary Force 21, the Marine Corps plan for its future force.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Washington Pulse Although the Navy does not have the equivalent of a "Comanche" on the horizon, all programs are under review in preparation for the fiscal year 2006 budget submission, said the chief of naval operations.