In 2018 Congress mandated 355 combat force ships for the Navy. According to the United States Naval Institute as of October 2025, we now have 287, a deficit of 68 or 20% fewer ships than required to ...

Excitement is building as the Navy moves closer to groundbreaking for the new National Museum of the United States Navy campus. The future museum campus will be constructed just outside the Washington ...

Maritime 2026 opened with a bang between the announcement of Battleships, Venezuela, shadow fleets and yes, U.S. shipbuilding ...

Recent budget legislation in the U.S. directs tens of billions toward revitalizing U.S. shipbuilding and repairing the industrial base. The “Big Beautiful Bill,” recently signed into law, has drawn ...

Brent is a Senior Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology in the Allison Center for National Security. War in the Pacific is a very real possibility this decade, and China has been ...