By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. Only a week before leaving office, President Joe Biden announced on Jan.13 that the next two Gerald R. Ford carriers would be named for former Presidents ...

Adm. Grace Hopper is honored by Navy Secretary John Lehman during her retirement ceremony aboard the USS Constitution in Boston, Aug. 14, 1986. (AP Photo) Known as "Amazing Grace," Commodore ...

John Phelan, a businessman with no military experience, said Thursday that he would use his background in the private sector ...

John Phelan, President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the Navy, faced a tense confirmation hearing before the Senate ...

John Phelan acknowledged his lack of military experience but insisted his business background makes him the right pick to ...

A businessman with no prior experience in the military or defense policy is President Donald Trump's pick to be the next Secretary of the Navy. Republican campaign donor John Phelan told lawmakers ...

Trump's Navy secretary nominee said the president texts him in the middle ... texted me numerous times very late at night — sometimes after one in the morning," John Phelan, a businessman tapped to ...

Financier John Phelan has been tapped as Donald Trump’s nominee for the next Secretary of the Navy, according to a late Tuesday statement. Phelan is the founder of private equity firm Rugger ...