The Navy is canceling a long-delayed overhaul of the USS Boise after costs ballooned to nearly $3 billion, with Secretary of the Navy John Phelan saying the submarine no longer made financial or strategic sense to repair.

The Navy welcomed its newest destroyer USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) into the fleet Saturday during a ceremony in Norfolk, Va., which is among the last Flight IIA configurations of the Arleigh Burke-class.

USS George H.W. Bush may be avoiding the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the ‘other” chokepoint in the Middle East, where U.S. Navy destroyers have come under attack in the past.

The migration of U.S. Navy minesweeping assets west from the Pacific indicates preparations are underway for a major de-mining operation.

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of April 6, 2026, based on Navy and public data. In cases in which a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations,