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On May 22, the House Armed Services Committee approved its version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, by a 57–1 vote. [6] As passed by the Committee, the bill included the Pentagon's controversial "Legislative Proposal 480", transferring Air National Guard space units to the Space Force; however, the Committee accepted an amendment proposed by Joe Wilson (R‑SC), watering down ...
The Explorer-class ocean surveillance ship is a planned class of United States Navy special mission-support ship.Also known as the T-AGOS 25 program, the ships are planned to replace five other ocean surveillance ships and is speculated to be in response to modernized submarines from Russia and China. [2]
Under this plan, LPD-32 would be purchased in the 2022–2023 fiscal year. [32] [33] In August 2024, Congress authorized the Navy to begin a multi-year procurement of three ships. [34] [35] The multi-year procurement deal, spanning FY25 to FY29, will save an estimated $901M compared to individual ship buys. These three ships are excluded from ...
The US shipbuilding industry is a shadow of what it was in the final years of the Cold War. The Navy is reliant on only a handful of major shipbuilders that design and construct different ship ...
Efficient planning proposes appropriate tools to facilitate process design and sequencing, production BOM and BOP management, time management, 3D shipyard layout, and ergonomic analysis. These management tools also help plan workflows, automate non-value-added planning tasks, and validate the optimal shipbuilding plan and digital shipyard.
The Navy’s five-year shipbuilding plan for financial years 2023-2027 outlines the procurement of the first NGLS in 2026 at a cost of $150 million and the second in 2027 at $156 million, each around the fifth of the cost of a John Lewis-class vessel. It is not yet determined how many vessels will be constructed but the 30-year plan commencing ...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has, for a considerable period of time, described the Ministry of Defence's equipment plan as "unaffordable". [3] As late as January 2021 the NAO reported that the Royal Navy had the largest shortfall of the three services at £4.3 billion over the 2020 to 2030 period. [ 4 ]
The Constellation-class multi-mission guided-missile frigates of the United States Navy are based on the European FREMM multipurpose frigate, already in service with the French and Italian navies.