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WASHINGTON – Good Evening, Drifters<\/p>\n\n

Two things I like a lot: warships and old heavy metal.<\/p>\n\n

So today I’ve decided to go with both at the same time. I’ve cued up Metallica’s shredtastic debut album Kill ‘Em All in my earbuds and take you on a quick tour of U.S. warships and programs under construction and in development. I hope that by the time The Four Horsemen get to the end of Metal Militia<\/a>, I’ll have finished weaving my weekly tale here at The Drift.<\/p>\n\n

I’ve had the annual pleasure of joining my surface Navy brethren at the Surface Navy Association’s national symposium in Crystal City this week. And one of the best opportunities you get for your time at SNA is getting a chance to hear presentations from all the major program managers from Naval Sea Systems Command at the NAVSEA booth on the floor.<\/p>\n\n

For this week’s Drift we are going to Hit the Slides<\/a> and give you all the high points of the presentations, both from the PowerPoint slides and the Q&A afterwards. It will give you an update on where some of the most important surface Navy programs stand heading into 2019. Good stuff!<\/p>\n\n

I’ll also wrap up some of the great coverage my esteemed colleagues in the naval press corps put together, and shamelessly plug my own stuff.<\/p>\n\n

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Program Updates (More Exciting than it Sounds) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

DDG 1000<\/u><\/p>\n\n

The message from NAVSESA this year was that DDG 1000 is getting water under the keel, is conducting operations and moving toward its future slowly but surely.<\/p>\n\n

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One of the Navy’s highest-ranking SWOs, Adm. Chris Grady, came into SNA with some real talk in his presentation today, telling the audience that it’s all well and good to get pumped about new ships but maintaining the current ships is just as important.<\/p>\n\n

The Quote: <\/strong>“Seventy five percent of the fighting force today will be what we fight with in 2030,” Grady said. “We must sustain what we have now to defend our interests in the future.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Highly recommend reading up on the rest of it at USNI:<\/p>\n\n

Navy And Industry Must Balance New Construction With Maintaining Existing Platforms<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Marines with Missiles<\/u><\/p>\n\n

Interesting read over a at Breaking Defense with my friend Paul McCleary reporting that the Marines are moving quickly to find anti-ship missiles that they can fire from shore, part of a move to make the Marines more relevant in a Pacific fight.<\/p>\n\n

Excerpt: <\/strong>Dubbed the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System — that’s NEMSIS to you — the program has completed its design phase. For the missile itself, Marines are looking at<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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