02 May 2020 USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) Changes Command The aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) held a change of command at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., May 1...
01 May 2020 U.S., and British Ships Conduct Anti-submarine Exercise Above Arctic Circle U.S. 6th Fleet (C6F) conducted a bilateral naval anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise with the U.K., above the Arctic Circle, May 1, 2020...
01 May 2020 Fleet Activities Yokosuka Call Center Serves Thousands YOKOSUKA, Japan (April 30, 2020) - In response to COVID-19, Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) created the CFAY Community Information and Resource Call Center (CIRCC), a call center that assists the CFAY community in receiving information related to base-wide business hours,...
29 April 2020 Program Office for Tactical Radio Systems Puts Plan in Place to Avoid Depot Shortfalls Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) terminals are slated to grow from hundreds to over 6000 by 2023 so the MIDS Program Office (PMA-101) designed a strategy and initiated the plan to avert potential depot maintenance support shortfalls...
29 April 2020 Navy MWR Digital Library Always Open Base libraries may be closed, but the Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Digital Library remains open as the nation and Navy address the ongoing pandemic...
29 April 2020 NEPLOs Provide Vital Link in DoD Support to State and Local Authorities Navy Emergency Preparedness Officers (NEPLO) stand ready to respond to national emergencies and events when requested. NEPLOs assigned to Naval District Washington (NDW) were recently called to action to provide Defense Support of Civilian Authorities (DSCA) with the current COVID-19 pandemic...
28 April 2020 Naval Base Kitsap recognized by Secretary of Defense on Earth Day Naval Base Kitsap hosts an annual base cleanup to observe Earth Day. On April 22, the installation in the Pacific Northwest had another way to celebrate it...
28 April 2020 Navy Strengthens Defense Industrial Base with New Small Business Funding Opportunity The Department of the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs today announced $30 million in rapid-funding opportunities through a new Broad Agency Announcement, which is a request for scientific or research proposals...
28 April 2020 NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic Teams Wrap Up "Whole-of-Nation" Support Efforts in Combating COVID-19 Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic forward-deployed teams sent to provide support for "Whole-of-Nation" efforts in combating COVID-19, successfully wrapped up their work last week in Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
28 April 2020 NAVWAR Leads Team in Testing of 5G in San Diego, Works to Modernize Navy Networks Worldwide Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) established an integrated product team (IPT) to accelerate the adoption of fifth generation (5G) wireless technology across the Department of the Navy, modernizing fleet operations and increasing fleet readiness world-wide...