Carlos Del Toro, secretary of the U.S. Navy and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, has underscored the service branch’s efforts to maintain global maritime dominance and prevail over strategic competition with China during
MoreVice Adm. Brad Cooper, most recently commander of the Fifth Fleet and CMF or the Combined Maritime Forces, has taken on the role of deputy commander of U.S. Central Command. CENTCOM announced
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The U.S. Navy is using additive manufacturing aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious landing ships as part of broader efforts to deliver or maintain platforms “more quickly, cheaply, and effectively,” according to the
MoreThe U.S. Navy’s Standard Missile-3 Block IIA effectively intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile after being launched from the Aegis Weapon System on an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. SM-3 Blk IIA was
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Anduril Industries, Kongsberg Discovery and Oceaneering International will prototype large displacement unmanned underwater vehicles, or LDUUVs, in support of the U.S. Navy’s future operations focused on subsea and seabed warfare as well
MoreThe U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and Naval Research Laboratory completed a nine-year study testing the Path Optimization flight-planning software on an unmanned aerial vehicle in the North Slope of Alaska. Path Optimization,
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Several technologies designed to help the U.S. Marine Corps improve its capability to perform mine countermeasures, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and other amphibious operations were demonstrated at an Office of Naval Research-sponsored
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Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro has called on Nickolas Guertin, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, and Vice Adm. James Downey, head of Naval Sea Systems Command, to
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti delivered a keynote address at a symposium on Tuesday and stated that she has three priorities for the U.S. Navy — warfighting, warfighters and the
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RTX’s Raytheon business has concluded a technical review and prototype fit-check in phase one of a U.S. Navy carrier-based high-speed missile development program. This milestone is a step forward for the service branch’s
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