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Budget According to American Society of Naval Engineers
An interesting Power Point (pdf)https://www.navalengineers.org/…/Documen…/Carnevale_2014.pdf about how the Federal Budget and Geopolitics influence Naval Shipbuilding from the American Society of Naval...
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Operation Mare Nostrum Influences Frigate Design
DefenseNews is reporting Adm. Giuseppe De Giorgi, chief of the Italian Navy says their experience with their massive migrant interdiction operation “Mare Nostrum,” that saved over 150,000, is...
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Germany to Build Four OPVs for Israel
Photo Credit: jimmyweee, Malaysian OPV Pahang, IMDEX2007 DefenseNews is reporting that Germany will be building four Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Israeli Navy. Israel has seen a need for OPVs to...
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2014 Polar Shipping Review–The Maritime Executive
The Maritime Executive has an excellent article reviewing what has been happening relative to shipping in the Polar regions, including some not too favorable comments on the recently released “Polar...
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Largest Ship
You have to see this. Makes aircraftcarriers look small. gCaptain reports the arrival of the largest ship in the world at Rotterdam. There are different ways to measure ships, but this is 382 meters...
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The 2015 Budget is Coming, Really it is, Maybe, Sometime
While the rest of the Federal Government has a 2015 budget, Homeland Security still does not. The DefenseDaily reported the bill out of committee in the House, describing the provisions, including this...
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Navy Rethinking Ship Designations–Time for the CG to do so too?
Photo: Doesn’t this look like a Patrol Frigate? The USNI is reporting that, “The modified Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class will be redesigned as frigates, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced on...
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Commandant Addresses Surface Navy Association Symposium
Thursday the Commandant addressed the annual Surface Navy Association symposium in Arlington, Virginia. Navy Times has a short description of his address. It is certainly worth the read. Reading it, I...
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Commandant Remarks and Q&A–USNI/CSIS on CSPAN
Earlier we talked briefly about the Commandant’s address to the USNI and CSIS Maritime Security Dialog. This is the entire address. It is about 53 minutes, of which the first half is prepared remarks...
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Office of Naval Research, “Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo”
Don’t often mention “trade shows.” I don’t think I ever have, but this is one that the CG might want to attend. What: Naval Future Force Science and Technology EXPO When: Feb. 4-5, 2015 Where: Walter...
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FY2016 Budget–First Look
We now have access to the proposed Coast Guard Budget for FY2016 in several levels of detail in the form of pdfs. These range from a one page “fact sheet” to over 500 pages of Congressional...
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“A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready”...
There is an upcoming event some of you might be interested in. It is the introduction of the new Navy/USCG/USMC strategy, “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready”,...
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State of the Coast Guard Address–2015
http://www.dvidshub.net/video/embed/392309 Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft delivers his first State of the Coast Guard Address and outlines how America’s Coast Guard will meet the challenges...
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RFP for Webber Class Cutters #33-58
The Acquisitions Directorate has finally published a Request for Proposal for Construction of the remaining 26 of the planned 58 cutters of the Webber Class. Deadline for submission is June 5. It...
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Defense News Interviews the Commandant
DefenseNews.Com just posted a three part video interview with the Commandant. Each segment is five to ten minutes in length. Impact of Sequestration:...
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Ten More Hero Namesakes for the Webber Class
The Coast Guard Compass has published ten more names that will be applied to Webber Class WPC. Announcements of previous names are here and here. There was a bit of a change in that the name of Joseph...
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Two More New Medium Icebreaker–Not for the Coast Guard
Drawing by North American Shipbuilding, click for larger gCaptain reports that Edison-Chouest is building another icebreaker (Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) ship), with an option for a second....
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CSIS introduction of “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower:...
One of our readers, David Van Dyk, a student at Liberty University, was able to attend the CSIS introduction event for the updated Strategy, and has provided a report of his impressions. With standing...
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Coastal Patrol Boats Boost Naval Presence–NDIA
National Defense Magazine has published an article about the Navy’s Coastal Patrol Craft, primarily focusing on those based in Bahrain, but also discussing how those in the US might be used. The Coast...
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Explosive Expansion of China Coast Guard
Informationdissemination has a post on China’s shipbuilding program for cutters for their recently consolidated Coast Guard. The build rate is amazing. …36 cutters of 1500 ton, 1000 ton and 600 ton...
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