Navy
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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took part in the opening ceremony Wednesday for the Great Green Fleet, a year-long initiative that demonstrates the sea service’s efforts to transform its energy use.
January 21, 2016 -
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has ordered the service, including the Marine Corps, to review all job or rank titles with the aim of removing "man" as a descriptor syllable.
January 20, 2016 -
Federal News Radio counts down our 10 most-read Defense and Intelligence Community stories from 2015.
January 05, 2016 -
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. says he plans to do his part to respond to congressional criticism over ballooning bureaucracies at the Pentagon.
January 04, 2016 -
The LCS variants all float upright and go from Point A to Point B. But how dangerous are they to the enemy? And protective of their crews?
December 28, 2015 -
This photo gallery shows how U.S. Navy personnel and their families are celebrating the holiday season at home and abroad.
December 24, 2015 On this week’s edition of On DoD, we get acquainted with Navy Cybersecurity. The new organization will have a permanent home within the office of the chief of Naval operations and will carry on the work of…
December 23, 2015-
Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talk to retired Rear Adm. Janice Hamby, chancellor of the National Defense University, about women in leadership.
December 16, 2015 -
Speed matters, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin. When Defense Secretary Robert Gates stomped and hollered when MRAPs weren't there during the height of the Iraq war, by golly, DoD found a contractor to build them in march time.
December 02, 2015 -
In anticipation of the upcoming "Star Wars" film, crewmembers from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower created a parody movie trailer: "Sea Wars: The Ike Awakens."
November 25, 2015 -
The Navy has to make some sink-or-swim decisions if it wants to remain intact. It must either maintain its fleet size and global presence and risk breaking the force or shrink to what it can afford. That's one finding of a comprehensive study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Former Navy Officer Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about how these decisions could affect the force.
November 19, 2015 -
Unless they're strictly for transport, military vehicles are not worth much unless they're lethal to the enemy. That's one reason the Navy is moving to improve the lethalness of its littoral combat ships. The Navy's surface warfare chief has ordered the ships equipped with so-called over-the-horizon missiles. Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss this and other naval matters in this week's edition of Pentagon Solutions.
November 11, 2015 -
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The Navy is analyzing results from F-35 Joint Strike Fighter testing off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower. The latest problems of the F-35 program are pilot weight limits due to ejector seat problems, a promise from the new prime minister of Canada to cancel his country's participation in the program, not to mention budget and scheduling issues with the Ford-class aircraft carrier program. Retired Navy Capt. Jerry Hendrix, senior fellow and director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security, talks the future of naval aviation with In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 21, 2015