State of the Navy 2025

After years of navalist hand-wringing, could this be the year the U.S. Navy gets the support, and the changes, that enable a substantially larger fleet? Maybe.Let’s start with Congress, where the bipartisan SHIPS Act was introduced to general applause in December. The bill aims to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding—naval and commercial—along with the U.S. shipping industry and the Merchant Marine workforce. A chief sponsor was Mike Waltz, a Florida congressman before he became Presid