Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan
@SECNAV
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Official X account of the 79th Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. Following, RTs and links ≠ endorsement.
Pentagon, Washington, DC
Joined February 2010
@SECNAV @NavyFB @WestPoint_USMA @USNavy We don’t need it! I’ll give them back to you at the end of the game, @navyfb will need it more. Just make sure you keep the 🏆 nice and shiny, @armyfootball 🏈is ready to take it back home! Beat Navy!
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.@SecArmy , let me know if you need my corpsman’s information. Always happy to help the Army patch up after Saturday. GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY! @USNavy @USMC @NavalAcademy
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The business of the Navy is warfare. We need to act like we are at war. We should behave this way when it comes to procurement timelines, maintenance schedules, industrial base resilience and anything that touches readiness should be at a wartime footing. Industrial velocity
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The simple truth is this: the defense industrial base is capital, process, bureaucracy constrained, not idea-constrained. We have companies with mature dual-use technologies—autonomy, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing—that are ready to scale. What they need is
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.@SecArmy, I brought you tissues, a pacifier and diapers. Unfortunately you will need them Saturday, not for your kids, for yourself! GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY!
.@SECNAV, hope you brought your life vest! 🛟🌊The Black Knights are about to sink @NavyFB on Saturday. @WestPoint_USMA’s spirit rally on Friday is the appetizer and Saturday’s game is the main course... and @USNavy is on the menu. 🍽️🛳️
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A day that lives in infamy. December 7, 1941, changed America forever. We honor the 2,403 fallen at Pearl Harbor and the Sailors and Marines who refused to yield; the grit that forged a Fleet that still stands watch, ready and relentless.
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The way we fund defense programs is broken. A decade to deliver capability is the equivalent of fielding a 2015 iPhone today, already obsolete. Warfighters deserve today’s tech, not yesterday’s timelines.
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Any change order comes through me. We are going to take our warfighters’ requirements, translate them into stable, producible designs, and stick with them once they’re set. If anyone wants to tinker with them, I’ve reserved Fridays at 5 PM in my office for change order
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Ronald Reagan proved that peace is secured through power. This week, @realDonaldTrump made it clear: we will build a Golden Fleet. We will invest smartly in the cornerstones of American seapower—carriers, destroyers, amphibs, and submarines but we also need new ships. A new
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I brought in VADM Seiko Okano to lead the Department of the Navy’s Rapid Capabilities Office with a clear mandate: the warfighter is the decision-maker not Pentagon bureaucracy. We are iterating faster, testing in the field, getting real feedback, and investing in game changing
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Kicking off @ReaganDefense with @DavidTrulio at the @RonaldReagan Library. The perfect place to highlight a simple truth: President Reagan rebuilt American seapower, and President Trump is doing it again.
We’re excited to hear from @SECNAV tomorrow at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the @RonaldReagan Presidential Library. Watch live and find the full agenda at https://t.co/zr2QVH6U00.
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We are fundamentally reshaping how the Navy builds and fields its Fleet. Today, I’m taking the second major step in that effort: selecting the design for our Medium Landing Ship, an operationally driven, fiscally disciplined choice that puts capability in the Fleet on a
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U.S. Marines with @22nd_MEU disembark the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17), Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, to conduct 11-Meter Naval Special Warfare boat operations while in the Caribbean Sea. U.S. military forces are deployed to the
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Thank you for the highlight, @JesseBWatters. Our naval forces stand watch around the world to keep our homeland secure and protect America's safety.
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