Robert D. Holzer is Principal National Security Analyst, Naval and Maritime Programs, at Gryphon Technologies LC.

Articles by Robert D. Holzer

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) transits the Suez Canal in November to the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of operations.

U.S. Navy in Review

By Robert Holzer and Dmitry Filipoff
March 2024
The Navy made good progress in 2023 on instilling a new sense of urgency in operations, acquisition, force development, and organizational transformation.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)

U.S. Navy in Review

By Robert Holzer and Dmitry Filipoff
March 2023
The authors review 2022 with a focus on the critical new systems, capabilities, and concepts the Navy is developing and has deployed in recent years—or is close to fielding.
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U.S. Navy in Review

By Robert D. Holzer and Scott C. Truver
May 2021
In the past year, the U.S. Navy battled the COVID-19 pandemic, weathered senior leadership upheavals, responded to tragedy at home, and protected U.S. maritime interests worldwide.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group transits in formation while deployed in the Indo-Pacific region in January 2020. By late March, the carrier would be in Guam battling an outbreak of the COVID-19 illness among the crew.

U.S. Navy in Review

By Robert D. Holzer and Scott C. Truver
May 2020
In a year of much disruption, a new Navy leadership team is attempting to implement far-reaching force structure changes in the spirit of naval integration while facing flat budgets.
U.S. sailors and Georgian coast guardsmen conduct an integrated visit, board, and search-and-seizure exercise on board the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) in the Black Sea in late January 2019

The U.S. Navy in Review

By Robert D. Holzer and Scott C. Truver
May 2019
During the past year, the U.S. national security community focused on the return of great power competition and how to filter through that long-term competitive lens the improvement of every ...