08 February 2021 NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville Postal Operations Team Delivers for USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Jacksonville’s postal operations team recently developed an innovative response to help manage the large and steady flow of mail to aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). By working with USPS to re-route mail and by installing a secure shipping...
05 February 2021 Defense Personnel to Support FEMA in Vaccination Push Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced that 1,110 active duty service members will support five Federal Emergency Management Agency vaccinations centers...
05 February 2021 NAVSUP to Host Virtual Industry Days Feb 8, 10 for Upcoming Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract In between the U.S. Navy and its contractors are thousands of pages of regulations, rules, laws, and policies that ensure the government receives the goods and services it requires at a fair and reasonable price, which guarantees careful spending of Americans’ tax dollars. The relationship gets...
05 February 2021 Fleet Readiness Center Southeast Recognizes 2020 Mentors of the Year Fleet Readiness Center Southeast honors its 2020 Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) National Mentor of the Year Award winner and 2020 Dora Quinlan Mentor Award winners...
05 February 2021 NPS Regional Security Program Prepares Deploying Forces, Surpasses Milestone For more than two decades, the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Regional Security Education Program (RSEP) has provided leading subject matter experts to deploying forces in transit delivering on-site, graduate-level briefings on regional issues and challenges, historical and security context, and...
05 February 2021 U.S. Naval Hospital Naples Administers Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine Frontline healthcare workers, first responders, and security personnel have begun to receive their second dose of the Moderna coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine onboard Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples, Italy. Staff from U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Naples have steadily been vaccinating the community...
04 February 2021 USS Ronald Reagan Begins Second Round of COVID-19 Vaccinations Sailors assigned to the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), began receiving the second shot of the COVID-19 vaccination Feb. 2, on Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY).The second round of shots follows Ronald Reagan’s initial vaccinations, which...
04 February 2021 Southwest Regional Maintenance Center Completes Emergent Maintenance Availability on USS O’Kane Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) completed an emergent maintenance availability for USS O’Kane (DDG 77) five days early on Jan. 22. The work repaired failures that prevented the ship from getting underway to conduct a mission essential exercise...
04 February 2021 NPS-Led Research Reveals Greater Abundance of Life Under Arctic Ice Than Previously Thought For the longest time, scientists have written off there being much life below the Arctic sea ice. Surely not enough sunlight would be able to get through the snow and ice to sustain an abundance of life. Additionally, satellites can’t see through the ice, and it was difficult for scientists...
04 February 2021 U.S., U.K., Saudi Navies Complete Exercise Nautical Defender 21 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (Jan. 29, 2021) – Forces assigned to the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF), UK Maritime Component Command (UKMCC) and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) conducted tri-lateral maritime exercise Nautical Defender 21 (ND 21) in the Arabian Gulf, Jan. 20-29...