“The Columbia-class program is building the largest submarines the U.S. Navy has ever put to sea and it still has almost no room for delay.” Intended as the sea-based pillar of U.S. strategic ...

-The most expensive submarine acquisition in U.S. history, the program is already experiencing 12-to-16-month delays on its lead vessel, the USS District of Columbia. -A recent GAO report highlighted ...

Inside the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine and a look at Navy sub school. We travel to Connecticut for the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine. While we were there, we also got a ...

The Navy's investing almost half a billion dollars on a new, Palantir-powered AI system for shipbuilding. Ship OS sped up the workflow for submarine jobs. This capability is starting with private and ...

The US Navy is widely regarded for its global undersea superiority, a distinction which the service is intensely working to preserve through extensive modernization and submarine production. Today’s ...

The Navy’s Columbia (SSBN-826) class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) aims to design and build a class of 12 new SSBNs to replace the Navy’s current force of 14 aging Ohio-class SSBNs. Since 2013, ...

Dr. Kelly Geurts, ship sponsor of the future Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine Wisconsin, welds her initials into the ship's keel during a keel-laying ceremony Aug. 27, 2025. Supervising is ...