Defense

51 years after being commissioned into the US Navy’s fleet, USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, has seen

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday issued a recommendation to the U.S. Coast Guard that would subject Coast Guard personnel involved in

As China starts landing jets on its first aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy is preparing to test take offs and landings of carrier-based unmanned aircraft, a

By Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins Two months after China’s first aircraft carrier Liaoning was commissioned, and a year and a half after it began sea

BEIJING–China has passed a landmark in the development of its first fully functional aircraft carrier with the first successful landing of a jet fighter

*UPDATE*  as of 5:25PM on 17 November:  The USCG has suspended its search for the 2 missing rig workers.  In the past 32 hours, 1,400 square miles of ocean

BUENOS AIRES–The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has proposed holding hearings Nov. 29-30 in a dispute between Argentina and Ghana over a

The Coast Guard safely rescued five crewmembers from the tug Polar Wind which ran aground and began taking on water 20 miles east of Cold Bay, AK at 8:58

SAN DIEGO–General DynamicsNASSCO on Tuesday completed the complex float out operation for the U.S. Navy’s first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship,

The final hull section of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived at Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard. The 11,300 tonne aft section of hull, known as

(Bloomberg) — Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. fell after the U.S. Navy’s sole builder of aircraft carriers reported third-quarter profit that

– By Donna McKinney, US Navy Research Laboratory With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the U.S. Navy is always looking for

By LT Stephanie Young, Coast Guard Compass Blog As Hurricane Sandy approached land, the HMS Bounty and 16 sailors aboard were in dire need of help. More than

Over the past few days it was unclear whether or not the US Navy would be officially tasked to provide disaster relief to New York and New Jersey.  It

Rear Adm. Steven Ratti, the Coast Guard 5th District commander, ordered a district formal investigation Thursday to determine the cause of the sinking of the

(Bloomberg) — Workers contained a spill of diesel fuel caused by superstorm Sandy, blocking it from flowing into a waterway that separates New Jersey and

The United States Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area Commander, Vice Admiral Robert C. Parker and Rear Admiral Richard T. Gromlich, director of Operational

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) meteorologist may finally be able to catch up on sleep as Sandy begins to disappear but the work of

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard continues its search Wednesday for the missing captain of the HMS Bounty approximately 145 miles southeast of

Update: It appears that earlier reports saying that the US Navy was in the process of mobilizing as many as 3 ships to assist with rescue and recovery