The possible ship contract announcement comes three months after the Navy canceled an order with Marinette Marine for four frigates.

The U.S. Navy is converting its Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers into what could become the first U.S. surface warships to ...

Summary and Key Points: USS Zumwalt is returning as something new: a stealthy surface combatant armed with four 87-inch tubes ...

Blue Water Autonomy, a Boston-based technology and shipbuilding company, today announced details of its first vessel, the Liberty-class.

For more than a century, aircraft carriers have served as the centerpiece of American naval power, projecting influence far beyond the horizon.

The Navy and shipbuilders working on the first Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine are striving to accelerate ...

The U.S. Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we've ever built,” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class ...

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 ...

Four Avenger-class U.S. Navy minesweepers were removed from the Middle-East in early 2026 after being decommissioned earlier ...

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 Constellation-class frigate will now go the same way as the Zumwalt-class destroyer and the Littoral Combat Ship—expensive programs canceled well before their time, at great cost to the taxpayer.

Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time. Attack submarines, for example, were once named for fish, then later for cities, and most recently (in ...