An American company will soon design and build the future small surface combatant (SSC) ship for the U.S. Navy. HII’s Ingalls ...

Ingalls Shipbuilding already is building Navy destroyers (DDG), and amphibious ships (LPDs) at the Pascagoula shipyard in Jackson County, where 10 national security cutters were built for the Coast ...

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 following is the Dec. 4, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress. From the ...

More details have emerged on future plans for the national fleet after the U.S. Navy announced it was canceling a major ...

The names, hull numbers, and abbreviations that come before a warship's name have been going on for centuries, making the tradition of naming a ship, in a word — complicated. For instance, ships in ...

The Navy’s four public shipyards and two unidentified private shipyards are working with Palantir for a program the service ...

The U.S. Navy commissioned the 19th and final Independence-class littoral combat ship today. The USS Pierre officially entered service, at a time when the Navy is looking to scrap or repurpose ...

ABOARD THE USS MOUNT WHITNEY — The Navy wants to mothball the only ship in the fleet that allows a U.S. commander to simultaneously lead U.S. and NATO forces in Europe and Africa, a move critics say ...

The Marine Corps’ “north star” is getting three amphibious ready groups continuously deployed around the globe, the service’s top officer said Thursday, a standard they haven’t been able to meet due ...

When the United States Navy ships' hull designations first appeared in 1895, ships were referred to by class followed by their series numbers, such as "Battleship 7" or "Destroyer 17," with ...