NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support hosted its third webcast series Aug. 9, with three senior leader panelists discussing Naval Sustainment System-Supply (NSS-Supply), the Navy’s new supply chain transformation effort. More than 400 virtual participants from across the Department of Defense’s...

In response to highly publicized stories of spare parts and equipment overpricing, the Navy established the Price Challenge Hotline in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in 1979. More than 40 years later, the hotline is still in use and has resulted in cost avoidance totaling more than one billion dollars...

NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) departed Naval Station Rota, Spain, on Sept. 28, 2022, marking the end of its time as a Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe (FDNF-E) destroyer...

Guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony Oct. 5, while pierside in Mesaieed, Qatar...

TEMA, Ghana - The Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) swapped crews after completing a maintenance availability in Tema, Sept. 30, 2022...

NORFOLK, Va. - The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), flagship of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG), departed from Naval Station Norfolk on its first deployment to conduct operations and training exercises alongside NATO allies and partners throughout the...

ADRIATIC SEA - Cmdr. Daniel Krause relieved Cmdr. Nelson “DC” Keyser as commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 86 during an in-flight change of command ceremony in the skies above USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Adriatic Sea, Oct. 1, 2022. Capt. Thomas Bodine, commander, Carrier...

MAYPORT, Fla. - In late August, Region Legal Service Office Southeast hosted a three-day training symposium for the first time since 2019.  The learning event was a critical opportunity for judge advocates, Legalmen, and civilian employees spanning a large area of responsibility to reconnect and –...

UNITED STATES - A full authority digital fly-by-wire Flight Control System (FCS) is one of many impressive capabilities setting the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter apart from any other heavy lift aircraft. “Full authority” means the FCS provides all of the aircraft motion—not just...

NORFOLK, Va. - USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the first-in-class of the Navy’s newest generation of Ford-class aircraft carriers. It’s been nearly 40 years since the Navy has commissioned a new generation of aircraft carriers. With change comes history that has to be made. Ford has done just that...