Naval Shipboard 5G: Key Systems That Could Benefit From Private High-Speed Networks
Naval shipboard network procurement report Naval shipboard 5G is not about faster sailor phones The real case for private shipboard 5G is not browsing speed. It is whether a warship can move video, sensor...
7 Reasons Navies Keep Buying Proven Gas Turbines for Next-Generation Warships
Naval propulsion procurement report Old engine, new destroyer The surprise is not that a next-generation destroyer still needs a gas turbine. The surprise is how often the safest futuristic ship begins with a proven...
Foreign-Built U.S. Navy Frigates & The Supplier Categories That Could Win From the New Procurement Model
U.S. Navy frigate procurement and supplier opportunity report Foreign-built U.S. Navy frigates could reshape the supplier map A foreign frigate would not just be a hull decision. It would be a radar decision, a...
10 Mission Packages Navies Could Swap Without Buying Another Boat
Unmanned naval systems procurement report Modular USV payloads turn one boat into ten missions The expensive mistake is buying a drone boat for one job and discovering the mission changed before the hull wore...
Inside the Modern ASW Frigate
Frigate procurement and underwater warfare report The new ASW shopping list ASW used to be sold around the ship and the helicopter. That is not enough anymore. A serious frigate package now looks like...
Why Power and Water Are Becoming the Navy Shipyard’s Most Important Weapons
Naval shipyard utility infrastructure report Power and water may be the shipyard’s most important weapons Old shipyards do not lose months because a submarine cannot find the dry dock on a chart. They lose...
Naval Shipyards Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Technology Projects and the Key Systems Behind the Next Generation of Fleet Maintenance
Naval shipyard modernization report Naval shipyards are becoming billion-dollar technology projects Anyone who has watched a yard lose time over power, water, cranes, material flow or late planning knows the dry dock is only...
KDDX and the Digital Warship Era: The Top Systems Behind 5G-Connected Destroyers
Naval systems and smart warship report Inside the digital warship Spend enough time around ship programs and one lesson keeps coming back: the headline weapon is rarely the whole story. South Korea’s KDDX is...
Can a Frigate Survive 100 Cheap Drones? The Systems Behind Next-Generation Shipboard Counter-UAS
Shipboard counter-UAS systems report Only if it stops treating drones as single targets. The next frigate needs a layered counter-UAS stack that can find, classify, jam, shoot, burn or confuse drones without emptying its...
Should Every Warship Carry a Metal 3D Printer?
Shipboard additive manufacturing report Should every warship carry a metal 3D printer? The better question is where the fleet needs metal manufacturing capacity. A carrier, amphib or tender can be a production node. A...
Can Waste Heat Extend a Destroyer’s Range? 8 Numbers Behind the Navy’s New DDG-51 Energy-Recovery Push
DDG-51 energy recovery report Can waste heat extend a destroyer’s range? Every destroyer engineer knows the stack is throwing away energy. The hard part is not proving heat exists. The hard part is turning...
Should Every ASW Frigate Carry Its Own Unmanned Sonar Boat?
ASW frigate and unmanned sonar report Should every ASW frigate carry its own unmanned sonar boat? Anyone who has worked around ASW knows the frigate is always balancing reach, noise, weather, helicopter availability and...
CEAFAR Radar vs Next-Generation Naval Radar: 9 Questions Navies Should Ask Before Switching AESA Suppliers
Naval radar procurement brief CEAFAR vs next-generation naval radar A radar switch looks clean on a slide. It is not clean in a shipyard. Change the array and the navy may also change mast...
CEAFAR vs the Next Generation of Naval Radar: 9 Questions Navies Should Ask Before Switching AESA Suppliers
High-value naval radar switching report CEAFAR vs the next generation of naval radar I think the real question for navies is not whether CEAFAR is impressive. It is whether switching AESA suppliers improves the...
Putting a Laser on a Warship Could Break the Retrofit Budget
Directed energy retrofit budget report I think the hardest part of putting a laser on an existing warship is not buying the laser. It is proving the ship can power it, cool it, aim...
Warships Are Getting Over-the-Air Updates: 10 Controls Every Combat-System Software Vendor Will Need
Combat-system software and OTA update report I think the most important shift is that a warship software update is no longer just an IT patch. Once radar, sonar, weapons interfaces, combat-system baselines, and command-and-control...
Navy Plug and Play Consortium Could Fast Track Shipboard Tech
Shipboard plug-and-play procurement report I think the Navy’s new plug-and-play consortium is important because it does not reward the most futuristic technology by itself. It rewards advanced systems that can touch existing ships, networks,...
Who Owns the CAD File? 8 IP Battles Coming With the Navy’s Digital Spare-Parts Strategy
Digital spare-parts and naval IP report I think the Navy’s additive manufacturing strategy creates a rare supplier question: when a spare part becomes a certified digital file, the value shifts from the warehouse shelf...
Saronic vs Anduril: Software Defined Naval Shipyards Become the Next Arms Race
Shipyard of 2035 investment report I think the Saronic versus Anduril story is really a contest over the future factory model, because autonomous warships will need shipyards that behave more like software-defined production systems...
Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 5 Turns Infrastructure Into a Supplier Goldmine
Naval infrastructure and shipyard supplier report I think the most useful way to read Pearl Harbor’s Dry Dock 5 is as a whole industrial system, because the visible concrete basin only works if the...