The following is the July 14, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Navy DDG(X) Next-Generation Destroyer Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report The Navy’s DDG(X) ...

The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and allied partners completed the largest amphibious exercise in the Western Atlantic in over a ...

President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) Public Law No: 119-21 (The OBBB Act). The OBBB ...

DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer program has long been considered the workhorse of the U.S. Navy. With the transition to Flight III, these ships now serve as floating command centers capable of ...

We are, to your point, using them at an alarming rate.” Adm. James Kilby’s testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 24, 2025, was one of those moments of high-pitched tension for US ...

The SM-3 missile is an important element of the Navy's Aegis Combat System, equipped on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers.

The U.S. 6th Fleet positioned five Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean to provide defense support to Israel.

The Hudner had operated the defense effort with the USS The Sullivans, also Mayport-based, as well as the destroyers USS Arleigh Burke, USS Oscar Austin and USS Paul Ignatius in a joint effort ...

HII celebrated the christening of the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, at its Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Mississippi.