The program is focused on several technical areas, including AUV designs.

The Navy revealed new details Tuesday about its procurement plans for a new Guided Missile Battleship (BBG(X)) program.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle supplied modernization updates at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space convention.

The F/A-XX program has been in limbo for about a year due to concerns over defense industrial base capacity.

The budget proposal includes initial funding for a new class of battleships.

The Defense Innovation Unit is trying to aid the Navy via its Emulation Module for Unmanned Systems (EMU) program.

The Navy is reconfiguring its model for buying autonomous watercraft that can navigate and manage cargo with little to no human input.

This new strategy will mark a key element of Adm. Caudle’s broader modernization vision and Fighting Instructions.

The U.S. military’s urgent need to counter cheap adversarial drones in multiple regions has heightened calls for directed energy weapons.

The service’s new warfighting directions rely heavily on the integration of surface, undersea, and aerial drone swarms across the fleet.