US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on time and on budget in recent years,

US President Donald Trump said he has approved a plan for the US Navy (USN) “to begin the construction of two brand-new, very large, the largest we've ever

The Navy still needs new frigates, and is still intent on building them. But it must make basic changes to its acquisition process to avoid a second Constellation fiasco.

The Navy’s four public shipyards and two unidentified private shipyards are working with Palantir for a program the service is calling “Ship OS” as part of a new $448 million effort to improve efficiency through better use of data.

The US Navy is moving forward with plans to build a new class of smaller, more agile combat ships that leaders say will play a central role in the service’s future fleet, addressing long-standing gaps in surface combatant capacity.

Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) launched the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) one-way attack drone in the Gulf,

Trump said that the frigates will be built at the Philadelphia shipyards, which Hanwha had invested $5 billion into.

The new class of smaller combatant ships will be a smaller, more agile surface combatant designed to complement the fleet’s larger, multi-mission warships and enhance operational flexibility around the globe.