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SECDEF Carter: All Military Specialties Will Be Open To Women, Marine...
Pfc. Christina Fuentes Montenegro prepares to hike to her platoon’s defensive position during patrol week of Infantry Training Battalion near Camp Geiger, N.C. on Oct. 31, 2013. US Marine Corps Photo...
View ArticleDocument: SECDEF Carter’s Implementation Guidance to Include Women in All...
The following is the Dec. 3, 2015 memorandum from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Pentagon leaders outlining the implementation of opening all U.S. military jobs to women.
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U.S. to Deploy Navy P-8A Poseidon Aircraft to Singapore
A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon takes off from NAS Jacksonville, Fla. US Navy Photo Singapore has given the go-ahead for U.S. Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft to operate out of its...
View ArticleDocument: Report to Congress on Women in Combat
The following is the Dec. 3, 2015 Congressional Research Service report, Women in Combat: Issues for Congress.
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First Round of Navy Recommendations for Personnel Reform Ready for Congress
Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP) Vice Adm. Bill Moran on Nov. 21, 2014. US Navy Photo WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Navy’s initial set of recommendations to Congress to modify personnel legislation – along with...
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SECDEF Carter Directs Navy to Cut Littoral Combat Ship Program to 40 Hulls,...
USS Freedom (LCS-1), left, and USS Independence (LCS-2) in 2012. US Navy Photo Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has ordered the Navy to trim its total buy of Littoral Combat Ships to 40 and down select...
View ArticleDocument: Budget Directive Letter from SECDEF Carter to SECNAV Mabus
The following is the Dec. 14, 2015 letter from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus directing several key budget changes to the service’s 2017 budget submission —...
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Carter’s Rebuke of Navy Budget Proposal Points to Split Between Service, DoD...
Ash Carter and Ray Mabus on the flight deck of USS Freedom (LCS-1) in 2012. DoD Photo Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s list of directives Monday to the Navy to retool its budget for Fiscal Year 2017...
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Top Stories 2015: U.S. Navy Operations
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime stories in 2015. U.S. Carrier Gap Sailors spell out #USA with the...
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Top Stories 2015: Foreign Defense Acquisition
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime stories in 2015. Mistral Sale to Egypt Mistral-class helicopter carrier...
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Top Stories 2015: U.S. Navy Acquisition
USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime stories in 2015. Navy Selects New COD Airframe MV-22 Osprey, assigned to...
View ArticleDocument: SECDEF Carter Letter to McCain On South China Sea Freedom of...
The following is the Dec. 22, 2015 letter from Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) outlining the U.S. Oct., 27 2015 freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea....
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Opinion: SECDEF Carter’s Plan to Trim U.S. Navy Fleet Size is Dangerous
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in the background as Secretary of Defense Ash Carter flies in a V-22 Osprey on Nov. 5, 2015. DoD Photo A version of this post originally appeared on Observer.com. The...
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SECNAV Ray Mabus Defends Shipbuilding Record
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on Jan. 14, 2016 addressing the Surface Navy Association symposium. US Navy Photo A month after a terse memo from the Office of the Secretary of Defense that accused the...
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Lockheed Martin Not Planning For Truncated Littoral Combat Ship Program Yet...
Sioux City (LCS-11) during the ship’s moveout at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine yard in Wisconsin. Lockheed Martin photo. Lockheed Martin is continuing with its Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship...
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UPDATED: SECDEF Carter Outlines New Budget That Supports Future High-End Fight
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks at a press conference on May 1, 2015. US Navy Photo This post has been updated with additional information from Ash Carter’s presentation. WASHINGTON – Defense...
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Little Known Pentagon Office Key to U.S. Military Competition with China, Russia
A test shot of an electromagnetic railgun. US Navy Photo A little publicized Pentagon office tasked with tweaking existing U.S. military capabilities for new roles and missions is a key player in the...
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The Philippines at Forefront of New Pentagon Maritime Security Initiative
The Pentagon recently began funding maritime security projects with countries in the South China Sea aimed at giving them the capability to monitor activities in their territorial waters and air space...
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SECDEF Carter: China Still Invited to RIMPAC 2016 Despite South China Sea...
An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 operates near the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and the People’s...
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McCain to SECDEF Carter: U.S. South China Sea Presence Operations Should Be...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Sen. John McCain in 2015. THE PENTAGON — The chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee again criticized Defense Secretary Ash Carter for a reluctance to detail U.S....
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Beijing Accuses U.S. of ‘Negative Publicity Campaign’ Over South China Sea...
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter greets Deputy Chief of the Peoples Liberation Army (China) General Staff Adm. Sun Jianguo in Singapore on June 3, 2016. DoD Photo Chinese officials took aim at U.S....
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U.S., Sweden Sign Agreement To Collaborate On Anti-Sub, Anti-Air R&D, Exercises
Then-Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert is piped ashore after touring the Swedish submarine HMS Uppland at Karlskrona Naval Base on July 14, 2015. US Navy photo. Defense Secretary...
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Richardson, Carter, Biden Highlight Importance of Global Maritime Partnerships
Malabar 2016 participants from the Indian Navy, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), and U.S. Navy sail in formation. US Navy photo. Navy, Pentagon and national leadership spoke about the...
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Chinese Warships Now Training with Ships from U.S. Carrier Strike Group
Chinese and U.S. ships on June 25, 2016. Chinese Ministry of Defense Photo CLARIFICATION: The PLAN ships bound for RIMPAC were accompanied by two ships from the Stennis Carrier Strike Group, not the...
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SECNAV Mabus Memo: Navy Budget Submission Built with Trump’s Pentagon in Mind
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus speaks Dec. 6, 2016 at an all-hands call at Walter Reed Bethesda (WRB). US Navy Photo WASHINGTON, D.C. — Outgoing Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has crafted the Fiscal...
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Navy Wants to Grow Fleet to 355 Ships; 47 Hull Increase Adds Destroyers,...
USS Dewey (DDG-105), USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108), USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USS OÕKane (DDG-77) and USS Sterett (DDG-104) participate in a show of force transit training exercise on Nov. 4, 2016. US...
View ArticleDocument: Congressional Budget Office Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017...
The following is the Congressional Budget Office An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017 Shipbuilding Plan which was released on Jan. 4, 2016. From the report: CBO Estimates That Spending for New...
View ArticleDocument: SECDEF Ash Carter’s Exit Memo
The following is the Jan. 5, 2016 memo Department of Defense Accomplishments (2009-2016) Taking the Long View, Investing for the Future, signed by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. The document is part...
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Fleet Forces Commander: Navy Needs Capacity, Readiness, Not Just Capability
Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces, addresses the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) on Dec. 29, 2016, using the 1MC on the navigational bridge. Ike and...
View ArticleDocument: CBO Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017 Shipbuilding Plan
The following is the Congressional Budget Office report, An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017 Shipbuilding Plan.
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