The Navy is getting ready to take the next step in its ongoing competition to build a new amphibious assault ship for the service, officials said. Called the LX®, the new amphib will replace the ...

Congressional decision-makers are working with the Navy to explore massively speeding up construction of its emerging fleet of new amphibious assault ships --- as part of an urgent push to expand the ...

Navy officials and Congressional decision-makers are considering an option to accelerate procurement of a new multi-mission amphibious assault ship designed to function in a modern threat environment, ...

Congressional decision-makers are working with the Navy to explore massively speeding up construction of its emerging fleet of new amphibious assault ships as part of an urgent push to expand the ...

The Navy is preparing to build its new LXR amphibious assault ship in order to meet the fast-rising need for amphibs across the globe, Congressional sources said. Efforts to begin the process of ...

Ingalls Shipbuilding lands the 700-ton deckhouse on the amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7) on July 9, 2016. Ingalls Shipbuilding photo. CAPITOL HILL — The Navy and Marine Corps are running up ...

This story has been updated to fix attribution to Cmdr. Matthew Phillips. The favorite cereal among the crew of USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) was Captain Crunch. So beloved was the cereal that its ...