Megan Eckstein

The Senate Armed Services Committee wants a higher standard for letting the Navy retire ships early, proposing a process that would question whether the sea service can meet its global obligations without the ships in question.

U.S. 5th Fleet is kicking off the inaugural Central Partnership Station exercise in Lebanon, marrying partner-building military training with humanitarian work in the exercise event.

An ongoing Global Posture Review and a 2022 update to the National Defense Strategy will provide the U.S. Navy more clarity on what its roles and expectations will be in an increasingly competitive maritime space.

The Navy and Boeing paired their unmanned tanker with the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter for the first time, with the drone refueling its third aircraft type since June as it heads towards shipboard testing and the standup of the first MQ-25A squadron later this year.

The U.S. Navy has made significant progress with unmanned systems but needs to move faster — prompting the chief of naval operations to stand up a new task force to help usher unmanned systems into the fleet.

The final Zumwalt-class destroyer, Lyndon B. Johnson, completed builder’s trials and will now prepare for its combat system integration and activation process.

The Navy’s salvage and Seabee divers both work underwater but on very different missions. Now they may find themselves working together more often to prepare for a future conflict where its outcome could depend on the speed of their capabilities.

The fifth of six pieces of the LCS’s mine countermeasures mission package is through testing, paving the way for integration mission package testing and certification for operations in 2022.