The U.S. Navy is the maritime branch of the U.S. armed forces, operating carriers, submarines, and surface warships.
ABC News removed its Oct. 7 story on a $6.6 billion Anduril Navy shipyard deal, then republished it with a correction. Anduril puts Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital at 0.13% of the company, and the corrected version leaves the Trump-family claims unsettled.
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USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after a record 321-day deployment supporting the US war with Iran. The Navy's published figures measure what its air wing flew and burned, while the strain on the crew came to light through Congress and the press.
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Textron Systems won a $230 million Navy contract modification for two more Ship-to-Shore Connector craft. Textron sells the craft on fewer operators and longer gaps between overhauls, and describes both as design aims without figures against the older craft.
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Castelion posted the first public image of Blackbeard firing from a truck, a hypersonic missile aimed at about 80% of PrSM Increment 4's capability for less. Whether it fits the Army's existing rocket launchers is still a planned step that the photo cannot confirm.
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Raytheon has won a multiyear contract worth up to $6.3 billion to build and sustain SM-3 Block IB interceptors as the US restocks after combat use. The figure is a ceiling spread over as many as seven years, so how much the plants build depends on orders and factory output.
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Anduril is spending $3.7 billion of its own capital on a Baltimore County shipyard to go with a Navy submarine contract worth up to $2.9 billion. The yard will make Virginia-class parts, so getting the money back depends on the Navy buying more boats.
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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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Boeing ran its crewed-uncrewed teaming software over Link 16 on a Beechcraft 1900D and an E90 King Air, a step before it goes on the Navy's MQ-25A tanker. The software is designed to work across aircraft types, a claim that gets its real test only when the code moves into operational aircraft.
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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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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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