The Army recently activated its first composite watercraft company outside the United States in decades, a move that comes as the service seeks to expand its maritime capabilities in the Indo-Pacific ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will focus on developing watercraft, power-generation capabilities and a more effective command-and-control network as part of its newly formed modernization team meant to ...

In early March 2024, the U.S. Army vessel General Frank S. Besson (LSV-1) departed Joint Base Langley-Eustis en route to the Eastern Mediterranean. (U.S. Central Command) When the U.S. Army’s largest ...

(CNN) — US Army boats, which carried out the temporary Gaza pier mission earlier this year, are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military’s growing mission in the Pacific, a new ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A keel-laying ceremony took place last week for the first of a new class of Army watercraft, the Maneuver Support Vessel (Light). The Army chief of transportation and other ...

As the Operation Spartan Shield (OSS) Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB), it is unique that a tactical logistical battalion would be planning, coordinating, and overseeing a 56-day, 10,000 ...

The U.S military is at risk of repeating Russia’s logistics failures in Ukraine during a war in the Indo-Pacific. One of the enduring images from Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine will likely be ...

The U.S. Army has a watercraft fleet of 132 ships. (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — After years of talk of divestiture, the U.S. Army may be resigning itself to recapitalizing its ...

The Army has suspended plans to shut down its watercraft units and sell many of the service's ships until a congressionally-mandated study is complete, Pentagon and Army officials have confirmed. The ...