06 December 2021 Unraveling ‘Knotty’ Problems: ONR Helps Launch New Academic Center for National Security Innovation ARLINGTON, Va. - Recognizing the modern need for bold answers to complex naval challenges, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has sponsored the creation of Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation (GKC)—a new academic center dedicated to helping the U.S. government...
03 December 2021 Navy EW System Maintenance Course Enabled by MRTS 3D PENSACOLA, Fla. - Four years in the making, the AN/SLQ-32 (V)6 maintenance course using Multipurpose Reconfigurable Training System (MRTS) 3D trainers is up and running and has completed two pilot rounds of instruction...
03 December 2021 Puerto Rico Transports Marines, Heavy Equipment During Resolute Dragon JAPAN - The expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Puerto Rico (T-EPF 11) is supporting the U.S. Marine Corps during Resolute Dragon 21 in Japan, Dec. 4 - 16...
03 December 2021 3-year, $8.3 Million Cliff Line Erosion Repair Project Completed by Seabees on Naval Station Rota, Spain NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony signifying the completion of the cliff line erosion repair project on Naval Station Rota, Spain (NAVSTA Rota), Nov. 5, 2021...
02 December 2021 NAVWAR Volunteers Build Legos in Support of STEM SAN DIEGO - For over a decade, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Center (NWIC) Pacific have been premier supports of For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics by coaching teams of students participating in the various...
01 December 2021 Construction Begins on Future USS Robert E. Simanek SAN DIEGO - Construction started on the fifth Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB), the future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) in San Diego during a small ceremony, Dec. 1...
01 December 2021 Team Ships Public Affairs NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD, Va. - The Navy accepted the delivery of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, Nov. 30...
01 December 2021 NPS Student-Professor Team Connects Research to Marines in the Field MONTEREY, Calif. - This past Summer, a Marine infantry officer and a cryptographer from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) journeyed to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) was holding the Pacific Sentry 2021 field exercise. Their mission … to...
01 December 2021 NAVSUP's Fleet Logistics Command in Europe Earns Defense Transportation Award NAS SIGONELLA, Italy - Jeff Criger (second from left), Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella's (NAVSUP FLCSI's) supply chain director, accepted the 2020 National Defense Transportation Association's (NDTA's) military unit award on behalf of the logistics support command...
01 December 2021 Maritime Forces from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and the U.S. Conclude ANNUALEX 2021 PHILIPPINE SEA - Naval forces from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and the U.S. concluded a nine-day multilateral, multinational annual exercise in the Philippine Sea, Nov. 30, 2021...