Navy releases FY27 shipbuilding plan, long-term strategy for fleet expansion

Hung Cao (left), acting secretary of the Navy, speaks to sailors in the hangar bay of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, while underway in the Mediterranean Sea, May 4. Photo by Mariano Lopez/Navy.

The Department of the Navy has released its shipbuilding plan for fiscal year 2027 and beyond, with Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao outlining long-term plans for what the Trump administration is calling the Navy’s “Golden Fleet.”

“The United States is at a strategic inflection point, and rebuilding American maritime dominance requires urgency, accountability, and sustained commitment,” Cao said. “This shipbuilding plan provides a roadmap for the Golden Fleet, to grow a larger, more capable fleet while revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening our workforce, and ensuring our sailors and marines have the platforms they need to defeat any adversary for decades to come.”

Golden Fleet is an homage to Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet,” 16 white-painted battleships deployed in 1907 for a 14-month circumnavigation to project American naval strength.

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