07 December 2023 Combined US, coalition force increase combat effectiveness during Indo-Pacific Virtual Flag exercise For the first time in the fourteen-year history of the Virtual Flag: Coalition exercise, integrated forces from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada fought against a peer adversary in a virtual Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. To increase combat effectiveness, the combined...
24 August 2023 NPS Professor’s DURIP Award Will Take Quantum Research to New Heights Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Professor Dr. Frank Narducci, Chair of the Department of Physics, received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award to build what could become the most precise atomic instrument of its kind for applications to quantum sensing experiments in...
10 August 2023 PMRF Establishes Collection Points to Help Those Impacted by Maui Wildfires Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii – In response to the deadly wildfires in Maui, the Pacific Missile Range Facility has established collection points on base for donations to help those impacted by the devastation...
29 June 2023 NRL, 100 Years Strong! WASHINGTON, DC - In just a few days, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory will celebrate 100 years of service as the Navy's corporate laboratory with a rich history of performing advanced scientific research and making significant contributions to U.S. military forces on, under, and above the...
28 June 2023 NRL Scientists Use Pulsar Timing to Measure Gravitational Waves from the Distant Universe WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Space Science Division along with a team of international scientists discovered groundbreaking evidence for gravitational waves that stretch and squeeze spacetime. The gravitational wave signal was observed in pulsar observations taken...
16 May 2023 The U.S. Naval Observatory: Providing Precision Time and Location Data for the U.S. Department of Defense—and the Entire World Stennis Space Center, Miss. -- The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), the historic origin of METOC, today performs some of the American Military’s most technical, far-reaching, and critically-important work. ...
01 May 2023 Makin Island ARG Conducts Balikatan with the Armed Forces of the Philippines CAMP AGUINALDO, Philippines - The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with the embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) completed Exercise Balikatan 2023 (BK23), April 28 with a closing ceremony in Camp Aguinaldo, Philippines...
10 April 2023 GPS Pioneer Inducted into Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame WASHINGTON - Dr. Dennis McCarthy─former Director of the Directorate of Time at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and GPS pioneer─was inducted into Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame in ceremony hosted by USNO, April 6, 2023...
13 March 2023 Naval Oceanography: At The Leading Edge of Unmanned Systems STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - One of the premier innovators of the fields of meteorology and oceanography, the Navy is also a trailblazer in unmanned systems, notably METOC’s use of air, sea surface, and under¬water craft...
06 March 2023 U.S. Naval Oceanography: Pathfinders of the American Military Part II Weather’s Impact on Military Campaigns Historically, weather events have played key roles in outcomes of battles and entire campaigns. This happened famously during the Revolutionary War when George Washington moved much of his army across the East River under cover of fog after the Battle of...