In 2022, Congress established the independent National Commission on the Future of the Navy to conduct two overarching studies, one examining naval force structure and the other focused on shipbuilding and innovation.

The United States is in a maritime crisis brought on by generational neglect of the inseparable relationship between economics and sea power.

It’ll take all parties and the National Commission on the Future of the U.S. Navy is ready to help bridge the divide.

A bipartisan group of Armed Services lawmakers from shipbuilding states told a congressionally chartered panel Wednesday that U.S. warship construction must grow, and so too must less obvious areas of the Navy budget.

Lawmakers, industry officials and experts convened today at the inaugural hearing for the National Commission on the Future of the Navy, three years after Congress established the group in the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act . The commission -- made up of members nominated by congressional leaders -- aims to gather testimony from experts and submit a report to Congress by July 2027 detailing its ideas and goals to improve the state of domestic shipbuilding and the naval...