#shipbuilding

A House defense bill draft would block construction of the first Trump-class battleship until the Navy certifies that its planned advanced weapons are mature enough for the lead ship.

Davie Defense has finalized a contract to build five Arctic Security Cutters for the US Coast Guard, part of a broader push to expand American icebreaking capability amid rising Arctic competition.

The Pentagon says Navy Secretary John Phelan is out effective immediately, with Undersecretary Hung Cao stepping in as acting secretary during a period of naval strain and broader senior leadership turnover.

The U.S. Marine Corps and Navy are aligning on a three-part plan to raise the size and availability of the amphibious fleet after readiness fell sharply in 2025 and delayed deployments.

The U.S. Navy is framing the Trump-class BBG(X) as a flexible large surface combatant, while warning that design discipline will be central to avoiding the failures that undermined earlier programs.

The U.S. Navy is studying whether allied shipbuilders could help produce warships as domestic yards struggle with labor capacity and the service pursues a much larger fleet.

The U.S. Navy says it expects to spend roughly $46 billion over five years developing the Trump-class battleship and wants to begin construction on the first ship in fiscal 2028.

The proposed fiscal 2027 defense budget would allocate $65.8 billion for shipbuilding, funding a sharp increase in requested vessels as maritime competition intensifies.

France has ordered its fifth and final planned Defense and Intervention Frigate from Naval Group, locking in the last hull of a program meant to complete a 15-frigate first-rate fleet.

The Trump administration plans to propose a fiscal 2027 defense budget totaling $1.5 trillion, combining a $1.15 trillion base request with $350 billion tied to reconciliation.

A budget request expected on April 3 would push U.S. defense spending sharply higher, with missile defense, ships, submarines, and weapons production at the center of the administration’s pitch.

Singapore’s ST Engineering has secured a six-year subcontract to design and supply platform systems for eight missile gun boats for Kuwait, and will build three of the vessels in Singapore.