The non-partisan Congressional Research Service outlines the battleship project and includes a list of suggested questions for Congress on whether the ships are needed, cost-effective and meets overall Navy strategic goals.

Jasen Butler, 37, was convicted in federal court in West Palm Beach on all but one of the 35 total counts against him. The charges included wire fraud, forgery and money laundering, according to court records.

All Navy bases throughout the U.S. will participate in the exercise, which is part of regularly scheduled training intended to maintain readiness among the branch’s security forces. Military officials said the drills are not in response to any specific threat.

The Navy doesn’t have a clear plan for replacing the capabilities of an aging destroyer used to test the effectiveness of ship defense systems.

Adm. Daryl Caudle, who is the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, singled out two related concepts in which Austal USA has invested heavily during a tour of the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala.

The Filipino Shipmate Monument was unveiled this week at a former U.S. naval base in the Philippines to honor tens of thousands of Filipino-Americans who have served in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard since 1901.

A U.S. Navy helicopter crew airlifted a 60-year-old man showing signs of a heart attack from a commercial vessel and flew him about 125 miles to a hospital on Guam, according to the Coast Guard.

The first of the Navy’s proposed “Trump-class” battleships could cost up to $22 billion, according to an early analysis, a price tag that would make it one of the most expensive military vessels in U.S. history.

The tanker Veronica “is the latest tanker operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean,” U.S. Southern Command said.

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Navy civilian this week on suspicion of attempting to smuggle psychedelic drugs via mail, a police spokesman said.