02 June 2023 USFFC Announces 2022 Sea and Shore Sailors of the Year NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC), named Operations Specialist 1st Class Kandace Tomkin, of Commander, Task Force 80, as the 2022 USFFC Sea Sailor of the Year (SOY) and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Heather Rufohuse, of United States Marine Corps Forces...
02 June 2023 Center for Information Warfare Training Hosts 81st Battle of Midway Commemoration at Naval Aviation Museum PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola Navy community celebrated the 81st Battle of Midway Commemoration where retired Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) served as the guest speaker at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Naval Aviation Station Pensacola,...
02 June 2023 SNMG2 departs Rota in preparation for FLOTEX-23 ROTA, Spain - Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) departed Naval Station Rota, Spain on Monday, May 29th, 2023 in anticipation of the start of Flotilla Exercise 2023 (FLOTEX-23) hosted by the Spanish Navy in the western Mediterranean Sea...
02 June 2023 USS Shoup Departs Sendai, Japan SENDAI, Japan - The forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) departed Sendai, Japan after a port visit, June 1...
02 June 2023 $50.8M BOS Contract Option Awarded for NSB Kings Bay Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southeast awarded a $50.8 million firm-fixed-price contract modification, May 24, to Jacob Technologies, Inc. for base operations support (BOS) services at Naval Submarine Base (NSB) Kings Bay.The contract modification provides for an additional...
01 June 2023 “Condors” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 64 Provide Critical Support to Carrier Air Wing 9, Exercise Northern Edge ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - The “Condors” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VR) 64 provided critical support of Exercise Northern Edge by providing the transport of two Mobile SCIFs to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9, 27-30 April, enabling CVW-9 to fully participate in the exercise...
01 June 2023 World-class Technology Provides Navy Cyclone Forecasting Today marks the start of Hurricane Season! NRL supports U.S. Navy military and humanitarian missions with global hurricane and typhoon information using the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS®) since 1997. The latest version of the system called COAMPS-TC® provides...
01 June 2023 CNIC’s MWR Navy Movie Program Brings the Silver Screen to Service Members on Land and at Sea Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) and The Walt Disney Company recently surprised thousands of sailors as well as other military service members with special advance screenings of Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3...
01 June 2023 Navy Housing New Universal Leases Allow PPV Partners to Require Pet Deposits WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, D.C. - Earlier this year, the U.S. Navy implemented the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) issued public private venture (PPV) housing universal lease agreements, created to standardized armed forces PPV leases, across all Navy PPV housing. The new universal lease...
01 June 2023 Department of the Navy Submits Supplement 2 for the Red Hill Tank Closure Plan, Proposes Fuel Pipeline Removal HARBOR-HICKAM, Hi - The Department of the Navy (DON) today submitted to the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) Supplement 2 to the Red Hill Tank Closure Plan for their approval...