30 April 2020 USNS Comfort Departs NYC Prepared for Future Tasking; Military Relief Efforts Continue The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed New York City today, April 30, after supporting the Department of Defense's COVID-19 response efforts to New York and New Jersey residents during the coronavirus outbreak...
15 April 2020 NAVFAC Partners with USACE for FEMA "Whole-of-Nation" Effort Combating COVID-19 Military service members and civilian employees from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) voluntarily forward deployed this month to partner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "Whole-of-Nation" effort in combating COVID-19...
14 April 2020 Navy Exchange Service Command Hosts Virtual "We Stand Together" Concert Series In April, NEXCOM, in partnership with MWR Navy Entertainment, launched a virtual month-long concert series, dubbed the "We Stand Together," in response to the impacts from the COVID-19 crisis. While watching, viewers also have the opportunity to electronically donate to the NMCRS...
13 April 2020 NEX Creates New Program to Bring the Store to a Sailor's Door NEXCOM's NEX Downrange Program was originally created to support troops who are forward-deployed without access to a NEX. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, the program has transformed into a quarantine support program to support service members on ROM or who are unable to leave their ship...
31 March 2020 NSWC Dahlgren Division Employee Responds to Medical Emergencies in Local Community; Abroad Janna Roland has dedicated 17-plus years of her life to saving lives...
27 March 2020 NSWC Dahlgren Division Junior Scientists, Engineers Awarded Patent for UAV Sensor Innovation The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent to Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) junior scientists and engineers for a modular sensor platform they invented for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), NSWCDD officials announced March 27...
25 March 2020 Dr. James Colvard's Navy and NSWC Dahlgren Division Legacy Dr. James E. Colvard - former Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) technical director - passed away on March 10, 2020...
23 March 2020 Two Lovell FHCC Staff Members Test Positive for COVID-19 Two Lovell FHCC staff members tested positive over the weekend for COVID-19. The first, a civilian staff member working at the FHCC's North Chicago, IL hospital, tested positive March 22...
23 March 2020 Norfolk Naval Shipyard Civilian Tests Positive For COVID-19 On March 23, a Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Portsmouth, VA civilian employee temporarily assigned to the Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU) Ballston Spa, New York tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
16 March 2020 Navy Museums Temporarily Close Naval History and Heritage Command has directed all U.S. Navy museums to temporarily close to the public until March 31 as a precautionary measure to avoid large groups of people to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19...