Navy proposes decommissioning 39 ships next year
The Navy last week proposed decommissioning 39 battle force and non-battle force ships next year, another sign the Navy will continue to...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
Navy sends more mixed signals on fleet size: 350+ by 2040
The Navy this week tossed out a new target fleet size that seems likely to further confuse lawmakers and raise more questions about...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
China tensions rise amid Taiwan drills, ‘aggressive’ PLA actions
China has continued to occupy Washington policymakers over this long, hot summer, and tensions boiled over this week as the Biden...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 20, 2022
- 3 min
Senate panel tells DOD to end the hunt for extremism in the ranks
The Senate Armed Services Committee says it’s time for the Defense Department to shut down its highly publicized effort to identify...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
Here's how Congress saved the Navy fleet this year
House lawmakers this week voted for legislation that will let America field 10 additional ships and dramatically scaled back the Navy’s...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 12, 2022
- 2 min
House votes will determine fate of Navy fleet
The House of Representatives this week will vote on a series of amendments that will determine whether the Navy can follow through on its...
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AUSN Staff
- Jun 22, 2022
- 2 min
House lawmakers boost Navy shipbuilding by $4 billion
Federal legislators in late June added $4 billion in new authorization for shipbuilding and maintenance to the annual defense policy...
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AUSN Staff
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
Congress fights Navy plan to decommission ships
Congressional lawmakers this week started chipping away at the Navy’s unpopular plan to shrink the fleet by decommissioning ships....
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AUSN Staff
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Navy ship plan gets pummeled in the press: 'Out of touch'
The Navy has a Rodney Dangerfield problem – its latest shipbuilding plan gets no respect, no respect at all. In April, the Navy released...
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AUSN Staff
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
Sen. Graham says shrinking Navy fleet ‘incredibly dangerous’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned Thursday that the Navy’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would lead to a reduced naval fleet...
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AUSN Staff
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Cutting amphibious ships means ‘risk’ for Marine Corps
A senior Marine warned Congress on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s plan to reduce the number of amphibious warships will make...
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AUSN Staff
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
Gilday to Senate: Get us more ships
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday this week made his most straightforward pitch yet to Congress for a growing Navy budget that...
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AUSN Staff
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
Navy defends push to decommission dozens of ships
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told Congress this week that the Navy has no choice but to decommission 24 ships because they...
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AUSN Staff
- May 3, 2022
- 2 min
Senators press Pentagon on dwindling Navy ships
Two Republican senators this week warned the Biden administration’s top military advisers that their plan to shrink the Navy fleet makes...
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AUSN Staff
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
Expect Congress to bail out the Navy… again
The chairman of a House committee with jurisdiction over the Navy says Congress will once more ride to the administration’s rescue and...
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AUSN Staff
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
Navy warns Congress: Fleet stays flat without funding
The Navy this week released a new long-term shipbuilding plan that outlines three possible ways forward – two of which keep the fleet...
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AUSN Staff
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
Milley defends shrinking Navy fleet: ‘Ship count is an incomplete metric’
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley this week defended the Biden administration’s budget plan for the next fiscal year that calls...
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AUSN Staff
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
‘It sucks’: Lawmakers hate Biden’s Navy budget
Republicans and Democrats this week blasted the Biden administration for proposing to shrink the size of the Navy fleet by 15 ships at a...
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AUSN Staff
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
Navy would lose 15 ships under Biden’s FY 2023 budget plan
The Biden administration this week released a proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 that would cut the Navy fleet by 15 ships if enacted,...
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AUSN Staff
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Republicans say bigger defense budget needed to fend off inflation
House and Senate Republicans told President Biden this week that rising inflation will put U.S. military readiness at risk unless he...
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