27 April 2020 'Networks That Don't Exist' Expand the Boundaries of Battlefield Communication For the better part of two decades, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Professor of Information Sciences Alex Bordetsky and his colleague Eugene Bourakov have been working to develop and improve tactical mesh networks that serve multiple communities of interest at NPS and beyond...
21 April 2020 USS Gerald R. Ford Finds Center of Gravity With Rare Inclining Test USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) pulled away from the pier for three hours into the Elizabeth River to conduct a rare weighted inclining experiment, April 16...
15 April 2020 NAVFAC Partners with USACE for FEMA "Whole-of-Nation" Effort Combating COVID-19 Military service members and civilian employees from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) voluntarily forward deployed this month to partner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "Whole-of-Nation" effort in combating COVID-19...
14 April 2020 CH-53K Successful in Air Refueling tests The CH-53K King Stallion aced an air-to-air refueling test, successfully demonstrating long-range logistics support capabilities for the U.S. Marine Corps. The 4.5 hour test was accomplished over the Chesapeake Bay with a KC-130J aerial refueling (AR) tanker...
01 April 2020 Naval Oceanography Visits Australia to Cement Partnerships Rear Adm. John Okon, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, traveled to Australia earlier this month for an engagement and familiarization visit with the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation and Royal Australian Navy meteorology-oceanography activities...
30 March 2020 High Marks for NPS in Annual Grad School Rankings The Naval Postgraduate School's (NPS) Graduate School of Defense Management (GSDM) earned high marks in the latest "U.S. News and World Report" grad school rankings, released this week...
27 March 2020 Navy Strengthens Supply Chain During COVID-19 Pandemic Naval Supply Systems Command, has been proactively working with the commercial supply base to assess and mitigate risks to ensure uninterrupted service and parts flow to the fleet...
17 March 2020 Future USS Delbert D. Black Successfully Completes Acceptance Trials The future guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) successfully completed acceptance trials on March 12, returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding Division after spending two days at sea in the Gulf of Mexico...
16 March 2020 Navy Merges Sub Radio and IT Ratings Starting this summer, one of the silent service's newest ratings - Information Systems Technician (Submarines), or ITS for short, will nearly triple in size as it merges with the fellow submarine rating Electronics Technician (Radio), known as ETRs...
05 March 2020 U.S. Navy Kicks Off ICEX 2020 Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR) officially commenced Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2020 in the Arctic Ocean with the construction of a temporary ice camp, Camp Seadragon, and the arrival of two U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines March 4...