SEAPOWER
Volume 54, Number 12, December 2011
THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES
www.navyleague.org
DEPARTMENTS
3 President’s Message
SPECIAL REPORT: SURFACE WARFARE
4 Editor’s Note
10 Navy Faces Cruiser, Destroyer Gap Under Current Shipbuilding Plan
BY DANIEL P. TAYLOR
7 Intercepts
12 Littoral Combat Ship Mission Module Fielding Begins
BY DANIEL P. TAYLOR
52 Program Snapshot
54 Seapower International
16 After Long, Rough Road, DDG 1000’s Arrival Is On the Horizon
BY DANIEL P. TAYLOR
56 Historical Perspective
57 Ship’s Library
18 Next-Generation Ship-launched Cruise Missiles Taking Shape
BY RICHARD R. BURGESS
58 Navy League News
72 Council Digest
22 Paul F. Foster Provides Realistic Platform for Ship Self-Defense Tests
BY EDWARD LUNDQUIST
6 Washington Report:
Legislation being drafted
to address problem of
counterfeit military parts
26 Navy Continues Centralization of Surface Ship Maintenance
BY RICHARD R. BURGESS
30 Plan To Move Aegis Ships to Spain May Face Budget Hurdles
BY OTTO KREISHER
34 Canada To Recapitalize Its Surface Fleet
BY DAVID PUGLIESE
38
FEATURES
3 Our Mission Matters
BY PHILIP L. DUNMIRE
38 As Somali Pirates Change Tactics, Shippers Devise
Defensive Strategies
BY EDWARD LUNDQUIST
42 Navy Struggles To Combat ISR Information Overload
BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS
46 Coast Guard Weighs Its Unmanned Aerial System Needs
BY JOHN C. MARCARIO
48 INTERVIEW: Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard T. Gromlich
Director of Operational Logistics
BY JOHN C. MARCARIO
80 In My Own Words
BY COAST GUARD CAPT. KELLY HATFIELD
COMMANDING OFFICER
NATIONAL SECURITY CUTTER WAESCHE
COVER PHOTO OF THE GUIDED-MISSILE DESTROYER USS STOCKDALE LEADING THE GUIDED-MISSILE CRUISER USS BUNKER HILL AND GUIDED-MISSILE DESTROYER USS HALSEY DURING
OPERATIONS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN SEPT. 21 BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN NICOLAS C. LOPEZ. COVER DESIGN BY AMY BILLINGHAM, PENSARÉ DESIGN GROUP LTD.
