Navy Matters

The Navy continues to fail to learn the most fundamental lessons concerning ship buying.  The latest example is the Ford which has suffered...

Are you freaking kidding me???? As reported by USNI News, the Navy is going to conduct an in-depth review of the Ford because of all th...

Occasionally it’s useful and fun to review some relatively recent history.  Let’s look at carrier construction costs as we’ve transitioned ...

An article in the current issue of Proceedings (1) points out, as a notable benefit, that the Ford’s dual-band radar allows considerable re...

Stars and Stripes reports (1) that the Boston Globe has obtained a Navy report that describes potentially severe problems being encountered...

The new Ford class carrier construction cost is up around $12B-$13B already and will probably finish at $14B or so and I believe that’s wit...

Next up on the DOT&E hit parade (see previous post for link to DOT&E report) is the Ford class aircraft carrier, CVN-78.   Other re...