21 March 2018 'We Are Ready to Take the Watch' Navy Recruits Train for Fleet Watch Stations Watch standing has been a time honored tradition and cornerstone for operations at sea since the birth of the Navy. Recruit Training Command (RTC), the Navy's only boot camp, builds the foundation of watch standing skills for all enlisted Sailors...
20 March 2018 Navy Secretariat Restructures to Accelerate Business Operations Improvements The Under Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly, released a memorandum March 16 announcing a significant restructuring of how the Secretary of the Navy staff is organized in order to accelerate the pace of change and improve enterprise alignment in the business operations of the Department...
20 March 2018 'We Are Ready to Fight for Our Ship' Navy Recruits Train for Emergencies at Sea "Keep fighting, keep fighting!" This is the mantra that firefighting and damage control instructors at Recruit Training Command (RTC), the Navy's only boot camp, preach to recruits...
20 March 2018 Navy COOL Announces New "Best Sources" for USCG License Training Navy Credentialing Opportunities On-line (COOL), in partnership with Military Sealift Command (MSC), announced "best sources" training opportunities available to Sailors, March 19...
20 March 2018 Navy Seeks Savings, Releases Two-Carrier RFP The Navy released a CVN 80/81 two-ship buy Request for Proposal (RFP) to Huntington Ingalls Industries - Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) March 19 to further define the cost savings achievable with a two-ship buy...
20 March 2018 Carderock Engineer's Work on Risk Assessment in Bridges Benefits Shipbuilding Dr. Alysson Mondoro, a recently hired engineer with the Performance Evaluation Branch at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, is finding ways to "bridge" together her academic skillsets on the job...
19 March 2018 Game of Drones? Computers To Help Navy Recruit Unmanned Systems Operators The Naval Aerospace Medical Institute and Adaptive Immersion Technologies, a software company, are developing a computer game to identify individuals with the right skills to be UxV operators. The project, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is called StealthAdapt...
19 March 2018 NSA Mid-South Fire Department Road to Accreditation Naval Support Activity Mid-South's Fire Department reached the culmination of a three year effort and finally earned their Commission on Fire Accreditation...
19 March 2018 ICEX Weather, Ice Team Forecasts in Dynamic Arctic Environment The Arctic Ocean is a challenging and dangerously remote region to conduct the biennial Arctic Ice Exercise (ICEX). To operate safely requires the assistance of ice prediction and weather forecast models provided by a team of meteorology and oceanography experts...
19 March 2018 History of the American Red Cross Station on NSGB The American Red Cross has played an important role in providing assistance across the area now known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay since 1898...