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US Navy wants bigger and more capable unmanned drone ships for future navy
The Navy could potentially get by with fewer ships if some of the larger, more capable unmanned vehicles could someday reliably do some of the easier missions ships do, but it’s not a one-for-one replacement, said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Strains on crews, vessels set the stage for Navy crashes
In the past two decades, the number of Navy ships has decreased about 20 percent, though the time they are deployed has remained the same, according to a 2015 report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington research group funded by the Defense Department. The increased burden has fallen disproportionately on the 7th Fleet.
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EMP: North Korea’s Ultimate Weapon Against America?
“It is unclear whether a high atmospheric nuclear explosion would cause a significant EMP effect at lower altitudes and whether North Korea could execute such an attack without also affecting their own capabilities.”
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Begging for War: The Latest in the North Korea Crisis
Mattis and the Pentagon may look to request supplemental funding for Afghanistan as part of any CR legislation considered by Congress this month, said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "If I saw that I could get this [Afghanistan] element funded now, I would want to seize that opportunity," she said.
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Navy Upgrades Attack Submarine Weapons Controls, Sensors
Senior Navy officials have explained that the innovations brought to fruition with these recent efforts do, at least in part, help address an issue raised by a report more than a year ago by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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Gordon Morse: Did the Navy’s tipping point just tip after accidents?
There have been other, more recent reports. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said almost two years ago that the “demand signals” have too long exceeded the resources available to meet them.