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The U.S. Navy is the maritime branch of the U.S. armed forces, operating carriers, submarines, and surface warships.
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US Navy has refused for more than two years to sell Korea Cooperative Engagement Capability, a network Japan's and Australia's Aegis ships already carry. Seoul is instead building a domestic network for its newer warships, so its fleet will run on two systems.
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General Dynamics NASSCO workers ratified a three-year deal giving more than 800 of them a 10% first-year raise, then 5% and 4%. It starts below the Bath Iron Works and Ingalls raises but compounds to nearly Bath's yearly pace, the rate yards now match to keep skilled workers.
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Boeing won the Navy's $20 billion F/A-XX contract and now holds both US sixth-generation fighter programs. Investors have to judge whether a company still repairing its jetliner and space programs can build two new fighters on cost and on schedule.
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South Korea's Hanwha Systems-built Cheongwang laser downed two of four drones at its public debut, at 10,000 to 20,000 won of electricity a shot. Its 30-kilowatt Block I is rated for small North Korean drones at two to three kilometres, a narrower job than the US and Chinese lasers it is measured against.
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Pentagon investigators found no completed concussion screenings in Navy SWCC records for brain-injury exposures reported from 2020 to 2026. Until the proposed objective checklist arrives in December 2027, return-to-duty calls depend on corpsmen's judgement and commanders' schedules.
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Saronic's $1.75 billion Series D is about 58% of the nearly $3 billion venture investors put into marine startups over the past year. In Crunchbase's count the rest of the sector shared about $1.25 billion, so the headline figure mostly tracks one Navy supplier's fundraising.
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Saronic broke ground on Port Alpha, a $3.2 billion shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, built to make the autonomous vessels it designs. Navy contracts give it an early buyer, while the yard's output rate and opening date are still untested.
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Navy submarine officials are backing bus pilots and transit deals as the service plans to hire 250,000 skilled workers over the next decade. The office calls the commute make-or-break for recruiting, though its published results so far count riders and aid dollars.
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US Navy opened a robotic and autonomous systems warfighting center on September 24 under Rear Adm. Melvin Smith to write doctrine and train sailors. Budgets and technical standards sit with a separate portfolio office, so vendors have two Navy offices to satisfy.
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The USS George Washington is heading to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, leaving the western Pacific without a US carrier. The tradable Iran risk fell anyway.
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Anthropic's threat report says the operation pulled transponder identifiers, satellite-imagery scripts and personnel names off captions on public military photographs, and the company banned the account it traced the work to.
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Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in writing that eight Lincoln strike group sailors attempted suicide on deployment. For leaders running a long surge, it shows how far a readiness summary can sit from what the work costs the people doing it.
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Admiral Daryl Caudle says the service will field containerized lasers on ships it already has while designing power, cooling and optics into future hulls, and he is leaving the beam-combining architecture to industry.
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The Hanover, New Hampshire company says more than $7 million of Space Force, Navy and DARPA work is already signed, more than double what its investors just put in, and the single-chip technology behind it dates to a 2016 startup called WebSensing.
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The Naval Oceanographic Office is paying Saildrone $10 million to survey parts of the Atlantic floor with uncrewed vessels. It is work the Navy has done from crewed survey ships with oceanographic specialists aboard.
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Boeing gets three Lot 1 aircraft plus long-lead parts for three more, with first deliveries due in 2029. That is also the year the Navy now expects the unmanned tanker to reach initial operational capability, four years late.
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Huntington Ingalls and EO Solutions received a $3.8 million agreement in June for a marinized counter-drone laser. A defense official told Laser Wars the money is likely for experimentation with a system that already exists.
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The US Energy Secretary told oil markets on September 13 not to bank on an Iran breakthrough and to lean on alternative transit already moving about 10 million barrels a day, with Hormuz itself running above 9 million against 17 to 20 before the strikes.
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A completed critical design review moves the Hawkeye's mission-systems refresh into integration. The architecture claim, not the sensor claim, is the part worth tracking.
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In CBRS at 3.5 GHz, Navy radar outranks paying licensees, who outrank everybody else, and a central computer system decides in real time who moves. A device shipping into that band has to obey without a person in the loop.
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