17 August 2021 Meeting of the Minds: ONR Hosts First-Ever Roundtable with Present, Past CNRs ARLINGTON, Va. - The Office of Naval Research held a recent roundtable hosted by current Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin C. Selby and featuring eight former CNRs...
16 August 2021 $1.7-Billion Drydock Project Awarded to Improve Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Capacity WASHINGTON - Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) awarded a $1.7-billion construction project Aug. 13 to expand and reconfigure a dry dock complex at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, to increase the shipyard's capacity to maintain, modernize, and repair the Navy's...
16 August 2021 SURFLANT Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium Concludes NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. - After a three-day slate of self-help lectures, discussions and events, the Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT) Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium concluded at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 13...
16 August 2021 Navy Week Program Sets Course for Denver, CO MILLINGTON, Tenn. – The U.S. Navy is making plans to sail into Denver for a Navy Week, October 11-17, should the present health climate permit it...
15 August 2021 USS Whidbey Island Takes Part in Mass Casualty Drill for Large Scale Exercise 2021 NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. - Sailors assigned to the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) hosted a mass casualty drill as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021 while pierside at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Aug. 14-15...
14 August 2021 U.S. 2nd Fleet is 'Ready to Fight' as it leads 7th Expeditionary Maritime Operations Center during Large Scale Exercise 2021 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - It's a process, not a place. A Maritime Operation Center, or MOC, can come in many different forms, because what matters is the processes and planning taking place within them...
13 August 2021 USS Cole, USS Gravely Take on Black Widow, Large-Scale Exercise 2021 NORFOLK, Va. - The Sailors of USS Cole (DDG 67) and USS Gravely (DDG 107) have been very busy in the Atlantic lately, supporting two major exercises and honing their skills in multiple areas of maritime operations and tactics...
13 August 2021 505th Command and Control Wing Supports Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. - U.S. Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron and the 505th Communications Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., are supporting the U.S. Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 – the biggest U.S. Navy exercise in a generation, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday,...
13 August 2021 NPS Space Systems Grad Carlos Del Toro sworn in as 78th Secretary of the Navy MONTEREY, Calif. - Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) alumnus Carlos Del Toro was sworn in as the nation’s 78th Secretary of the Navy, August 9. Del Toro served 26 years in uniform followed by 17 years as CEO and President of a private sector firm...
12 August 2021 Navy Band Great Lakes Back to Performing before Audiences GREAT LAKES, Ill. - Navy Band Great Lakes, known as Navy’s Ambassadors to the Midwest, is back performing in front of live audiences after almost two years...