When more than four out of five warships in production are running late, the problem is no longer just industrial. The Navy’s shipbuilding strain now points to something larger: a fleet that has spent ...

The Navy has experienced chronic delays and labor overruns in maintenance on its large conventional ships (that is, ships that are not nuclear-powered). Those delays can affect deployment schedules ...

In the 1990’s, my father was asked to attend a side shell damage on a US Navy vessel. The damage was caused by assist tug hard contact. He surveyed the damage and came back to the office to write it ...