08 June 2021 NAVWAR Announces Project Overmatch Prize Challenge; Offers $100,000 in Total Cash Prizes SAN DIEGO - NAVWAR kicked off the Networks Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (NetANTX) Challenge, a prize competition seeking operationally relevant innovations and emerging networking technologies, in support of Project Overmatch, a high priority Navy initiative aimed at delivering a more lethal,...
08 June 2021 Team Navy announced for DOD Warrior Games 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Navy Wounded Warrior is proud to announce the 45 Navy and Coast Guard athletes representing Team Navy during the 2021 Department of Defense (DoD) Warrior Games scheduled Sept. 12-22 in Orlando, Florida...
08 June 2021 NAVFAC Issues Public Works Department Management Guide to Enhance 'Front Lines of Service' WASHINGTON - The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) issued its enterprise-wide Public Works Department (PWD) Management Guide in May, introducing a reference tool for all Navy PWDs at Navy installations worldwide...
07 June 2021 GaN Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Enabling 1200V and Beyond Power Switches, Now Commercially Available for 200 mm Large Scale Manufacturing WASHINGTON - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s gallium nitride (GaN) wafers, also called large-area engineered substrates, can enable GaN to potentially be a displacement technology for silicon semiconductors used in microelectronics, particularly in power electronics...
07 June 2021 Norfolk Naval Shipyard Supports Environmental Stewardship: Clean the Bay, Our Way PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Each year, on the first Saturday of June, Hampton Roads residents simultaneously descend on the rivers, streams, beaches and land-based properties of the Chesapeake Bay watershed to remove litter and debris. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participation will be slightly...
06 June 2021 Blended Retirement System CY 2022 Continuation Pay Announced All Sailors enrolled in the Blended Retirement System qualify for incentive pay at the 12-year “mid-career” point...
06 June 2021 VP-40 Conducts Harpoon Launch during Joint Missile Defense Exercise KEFLAVIK, Iceland - The “Fighting Marlins” of Patrol Squadron FOUR ZERO (VP-40) successfully conducted a coordinated missile launch with VP-4 using two Air to Surface Missile (AGM-84D) Harpoons against a target barge near Andøya Space Defense, Norway during exercise At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield...
04 June 2021 U.S. 3rd Fleet Changes Command SAN DIEGO - Vice Adm. Steve Koehler relieved Vice Adm. Scott D. Conn as commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet, during a change of command ceremony at Naval Base Point Loma, June 3...
04 June 2021 SWRMC Supports Delivery of LCAC 75 from Availability SAN DIEGO - Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC 75) was returned to Assault Craft Unit FIVE at Camp Pendleton on May 25 after delivering 17 days early from a Post Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) Extension (PSE) availability...
03 June 2021 Midway, Momentum and Manpower - The Navy's Bureau of Personnel in World War II War is a team sport. To get the complete picture of the Battle of Midway and what it meant for the war effort, you need to know what happened behind the scenes in Washington, 5,523 miles away. The combination of Nimitz's warriors stopping the Japanese advance in 1942, and the parallel stubby pencil...