The Navy’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year is its most ambitious shipbuilding push in years. After asking Congress for just six new ships in the last fiscal year, and nine in the one before ...

The Navy is considering eliminating up to five high-level admiral positions key to the construction of ships and fighter planes, even as President Donald Trump has vowed to pull the Navy out of its ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy is relying on the combination of the annual defense budget and supplemental legislation to buy 19 new ships in 2026, an increase from the five ships purchased in 2025 and eight ...

WASHINGTON — A Navy replenishment ship that previously honored a gay rights icon will be renamed to recognize a Navy chief who received the Medal of Honor, the Pentagon announced Friday. The USNS ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that a U.S. Navy ship previously named after LGBTQ rights hero Harvey Milk will be renamed the USNS Oscar V. Peterson — a move he said was aimed at ...