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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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The crisis points in the Middle East and the South China Sea are coming at an inconvenient time for the Navy. It's experiencing a carrier gap. Retired Vice Adm. Peter Daly is CEO of the U.S. Naval Institute; former deputy commander and Chief of Staff of U.S. Fleet Forces Command and former commander of the Nimitz strike group. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to explain what the carrier gap is, why it's a problem and what the Navy and Congress can do to close it.
October 09, 2015 -
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Retirement, benefits and pay were hot topics discussed by Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Bill Moran this week while speaking on the Navy’s All Hands Radio podcast.
October 09, 2015 -
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The Navy Sports Magazine Show features in-depth interviews and features on Navy's teams, athletes and coaches. The 30-minute show airs weekly from September to May.
September 11, 2015 -
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Three key elements comprise the Navy's latest efforts to recognize innovation in the Navy and Marine Corps. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus listed modernizing cash awards programs, creating innovation awards and exploring non-traditional incentives to encourage innovation. Marine Corps Maj. Armando Martinez of the Office of Strategy and Innovation in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the Navy's doing the awards program.
September 09, 2015 -
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For people in, or going into the military, the benefits programs — while excellent in some cases — are a mystery. Many people don't realize that members of the uniformed military services are eligible for the government's long term care insurance program.
August 19, 2015 -
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The Navy confirmed that everything is "all clear" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where many employees have been sheltering in place in response to an unconfirmed report this morning of a single gunshot heard.
July 06, 2015 -
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Peter A. Morrison and the U.S. Navy Solid State Laser Team were recently named Service to America finalists for their work developing the LaWS weapons system for the Navy.
June 12, 2015
