Navy Considers Laser Weapons for Carriers The Navy may outfit is new Ford-class carriers to accommodate a wide range of laser weapons to shoot down incoming missiles.
Six Aircraft Carriers Underway Marks Milestone for Navy: Top Officer As of last week, Richardson said, the Navy had six carriers underway -- a development he called "a milestone."
Cockpit Oxygen Episodes Sideline Navy Pilots Fighting ISIS The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush became the first East Coast-based carrier to deploy with a specialized piece of medical...
Congress to Hagel: Keep 11 Aircraft Carriers Eleven members of Congress have signed a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asking that he make sure the Navy retains...
USS Theodore Roosevelt Recovers Man Overboard The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt recovered a Sailor who fell overboard while the ship was conducting operations in...
Delivery of New Carrier Ford to Navy Delayed Yet Again They just keep finding more things wrong with the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, delaying delivery to the Navy once...
Navy's F-35C Takes Historic Step Forward Following Budgetary Turmoil Following the first landing of the F-35C, pilots have conducted more than 100 approaches, landings and takeoffs on the Nimitz...
Navy Launches New Affordability Plan for Ford-Class Carriers The Navy plans to invest $25M a year beginning in 2017 in techniques to lower the cost of building its Ford-class carriers.
F-35's New Landing Technology May Simplify Carrier Operations Seven Navy F-35 Joint Strike Fighters spent Monday morning in a round robin off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...