PRAIA, Cabo Verde — Obangame Express 2025 (OE 25), sponsored by United States Africa Command and conducted by U.S. Sixth Fleet, held the opening ceremony for the exercise May 5th, 2025 in host nation Cabo Verde...

Alexandria, Egypt — U.S. Navy Vice Adm. George M. Wikoff, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and U.S. 5th Fleet, presented Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Navy Vice Adm. Ashraf Ibrahim Atwa Megahed with a personal military decoration from U.S. Central Command during a...

BODØ, Norway — Eleven Allied nations kick off exercise At Sea Demonstration (ASD) / Formidable Shield (FS) 25, led by U.S. 6th Fleet and executed by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), in the North and Norwegian Seas and North Atlantic Ocean, May 3, 2025...

The U.S. Navy's Strategic Systems Programs is continuing on the path toward the nation's first sea-based hypersonic fielding with a successful end-to-end flight test of a conventional hypersonic missile from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This test marked the first launch...

CORAL SEA - U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) participated in the 11th iteration of Exercise Croix du Sud in the Coral Sea near New Caledonia, May 1, 2025...

Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific is riding a wave of success with its Next Generation Ocean Data Ingest (NGODI) program, an initiative poised to revolutionize the U.S. Navy’s ocean data collection capabilities...

Experts from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) contributed their insights and leadership to the Black Sea Maritime Forum hosted by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa (NAVEUR/NAVAF), April 15-17. Now in its fourth year, the forum provides a platform for discussion on enhanced security cooperation and...

On April 30, Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan met with Republic of Korea (ROK) Acting President Han Duck-soo and Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Yang Yong-mo to reinforce the ironclad U.S.-ROK alliance and President Trump’s agenda that achieves Peace through Strength. ...

Commander, Navy Installations Command announced the 2024 Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES) Award winners during a ceremony at the United States Naval Academy on April 23...

WASHINGTON — The Navy Reserve Force is officially 100% manned. This week, the Reserve reached its authorized strength of 57,700 Sailors for Fiscal Year 2025, the first time since 2020, reinforcing the Navy’s ability to project power, respond to global contingencies, and deliver...