Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare News and Analysis

The latest naval warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense

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Weekly Briefing Naval Warfare

Senate Ships vs. House Subs: Conference Clash To Come? House Democrats want to add $2.5 billion to build a second Virginia-class submarine next year. Senate Republicans would rather spend on destroyers and amphibious ships.

House Appropriators Add 12 F-35s, Boost Weapons Spending, But… "To us, it means that there is going to be much more tension and debate over future modernization programs as flat investment will not enable DoD to recapitalize in a timely and militarily relevant pace," says defense analyst Byron Callan.

'A Golden Age For Collaboration' On Lasers & Microwaves: But Watch The Cheetos!  "I spent the first 15 years of my career walking around in a lab with a laser, saying 'does anyone want this…' and the warfighter [kept] going 'that's adorable,'" Craig Robin recalled ruefully. "Just recently there's been a tremendous pull [because] we simply just got out it into the user's hands and they recognized the value."

Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.

Congress Pumps The Brakes On Navy, Demands Answers From OSD Lawmakers "are frustrated by the Navy's last decade of cost overruns on new programs, programs being late, and technology being the thing that holds them up," Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute says.

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