The vessels would allow the Marines to move small teams onto remote islands. Medium Landing Ship, or LSMs, can carry 200 Marines to shore.

Artificial intelligence will help the Navy to design and build its fleets with the help of a $448 million allocation and Palantir Technologies Inc.

The Department of War is unleashing a new era of operational dominance, where every warfighter wields frontier AI as a force multiplier," a Navy spokesperson told Military.com.

There’s dead, mostly dead, and then there’s the Navy’s railgun, which appears to have been resurrected along with the battleship.

Lawmakers are allowing the Navy flexibility in how it purchases the next two aircraft carriers and five ballistic missile submarines, according to the text of the defense policy bill. The Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act approves incremental funding authority for the Navy to buy both the next two Ford-class aircraft carriers and five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.

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 Guard over nearly 20 years, through 2023. It also is modernizing the Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers with technology upgrades.

Staffing shortages and ineffective ways of ensuring contractors comply with safety standards threaten to derail fire prevention efforts, GAO found.

The following is the Dec. 17, 2025, Government Accountability Office report, Navy Ship Maintenance: Fire Prevention Improvements Hinge on Stronger Contractor Oversight.  From the Report What GAO Found The Navy has suffered significant losses from 13 fires on ships undergoing maintenance since 2008.