DefenceTalkThe sea services released a new maritime strategy, March 13, a plan that describes how the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard will design, organize, and employ naval forces in support of national security interests and homeland security objectives. The new strategy titled, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready, accounts for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-releases-revised-maritime-strategy-63533/

DefenceTalkThe Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) completed tests on a prototype reverse osmosis (RO) system for the Navy’s littoral combat ships (LCS) in February. The Littoral Combat Ship Program Office (PMS 501) will move forward with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for development of a hardened Reverse Osmosis […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navfac-exwc-tests-new-ro-system-for-littoral-combat-ships-63329/

DefenceTalkThe Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and sailors aboard the USS Carney, USS Gonzalez, and USS Barry successfully completed a flight test involving the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) weapon system. At approximately 2:30 a.m. EST today, three short-range ballistic missile targets were launched near simultaneously from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. Two Aegis BMD destroyers […]https://www.defencetalk.com/bmd-system-tracks-simulates-engagements-of-three-short-range-ballistic-missiles-63285/

DefenceTalkThe crew of USS Constitution commemorated the bicentennial of Old Ironsides’ final battle during the War of 1812, her unprecedented dual-victory over Royal Navy ships HMS Cyane and HMS Levant Feb. 20 in Charlestown Navy Yard. Constitution Sailors fired the ship’s saluting battery at noon to commemorate the start of the battle, and visitors to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uss-constitution-commemorates-200th-anniversary-of-dual-victory-over-royal-navy-63282/

DefenceTalkFour US warships designed to fight in coastal areas similar to Southeast Asian waters will operate out of Singapore by 2018, a senior US Navy official said Tuesday, further underscoring Washington’s military tilt to Asia. The “rotational deployment” of the vessels, called littoral combat ships (LCS), comes as China continues to flex its muscles in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/four-us-littoral-combat-ships-lcs-operate-singapore-63148/

DefenceTalkThe Department of Defense is struggling to define a strategy for recapturing the high ground in military technology and countering the proliferation of so-called anti-access/area denial (A2AD) threats. Senior Pentagon officials acknowledge that the military’s ability to project power and support friends and allies is eroding. The Defense Innovation Initiative and so-called “third offset strategy” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-pursuing-offset-strategy-railgun-62868/

DefenceTalkInitiated in 2009 in collaboration with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, DARPA’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program has been investing in advanced technologies to provide a leap ahead in U.S. surface warfare capability. The LRASM program aims to reduce dependence on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, network links and GPS navigation in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lrasm-prototype-is-three-for-three-on-successful-flight-tests-62855/

DefenceTalkA synthetically guided Tomahawk cruise missile successfully hit its first moving maritime target Jan. 27 after being launched from the USS Kidd (DDG-100) near San Nicolas Island in California. The Tomahawk Block IV flight test demonstrated guidance capability when the missile in flight altered its course toward the moving target after receiving position updates from […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-demos-synthetic-guidance-technology-with-tomahawk-missile-62806/

DefenceTalkA former top US Navy officer was arrested Tuesday over a bribery scandal centered on a Singapore-based contracting firm, in which seven people have already pleaded guilty, officials said. Paul Simpkins, 60, was arrested in Virginia and charged with conspiracy to commit bribery for his alleged role in a scheme to steer contracts to defense […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-arrest-in-us-navy-bribery-scandal-62626/

DefenceTalkThe Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard the aircraft . US Navy’s $1 Trillion F-35 Jet Makes Historic Landing On USS Nimitz The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Stri. Sailors […]https://www.defencetalk.com/the-1-trillion-jet-%e2%80%a2-f-35-joint-strike-fighter-%e2%80%a2-aircraft-carrier-flight-deck-ops-62128/