Sea Power - April 2015

N A V Y / M A R I N E C O R P S / C O A S T G U A R D / M E R C H A N T M A R I N E INTERVIEW : VADM JOSEPH W. RIXEY, DIRECTOR, ...

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SEAPOWER Volume 58, Number 3, April 2015 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.navyleague. ...

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T he Navy League is a leading advocate for the U.S. our sea services, informing Congress and the administration that our sea war ...

EDITOR’S NOTE 4 S E A P O W E R / A P R I L 2 0 1 5 W W W. S E A P O W E R M A G A Z I N E. O R G U .S. sea service leaders on M ...

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The Navy does not intend to add the planned improved elec- tronics, weapons and armor to the two LCS variants for several more y ...

MARITIME MATTERS the LCSs and their upgraded vari- ants, which the service has dubbed the Small Surface Combatant. “The Navy’s n ...

MARITIME MATTERS warfare and cyber warfare. The strat- egy warns of the increasing techno- logical capabilities of actual and po ...

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MARITIME MATTERS 200 ACV 1.1 vehicles that would have little ability to “swim” ashore, and then acquire a more capable 1 .2 mode ...

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P resident Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 defense budget proposal of $585.3 billion in discre- tionary budget authority includes nin ...

SPECIAL REPORT / THE 2016 BUDGET PROPOSAL “What’s at risk of not being approved? A lot, because it exceeds the budget cap,” said ...

or salvage ships and LCAC 100s. The DDGs requested for 2016 include the first Flight III ship equipped with the new Air and Miss ...

SPECIAL REPORT / THE 2016 BUDGET PROPOSAL ty dramatic increases” but that the increases were not enough to shield the rest of sh ...

P resident Barack Obama’s proposed fiscal 2016 defense budget would give the Marine Corps a total of $25.3 billion, which is onl ...

SPECIAL REPORT / THE 2016 BUDGET PROPOSAL “Our most significant readiness challenge is the gap in the numbers of unit leaders wi ...

18 S E A P O W E R / A P R I L 2 0 1 5 W W W. S E A P O W E R M A G A Z I N E. O R G advanced pro curement of the first producti ...