06 May 2025 374 MDG hosts Navy Corpsman for TCCC training YOKOTA AIR BASE, TOKYO, Japan — The 374th Medical Group hosted Sailors from the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet for two iterations of tactical combat casualty care training at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 30 - April 4 and April 13 - 18...
06 May 2025 Sullivan’s Island Plays Key Role in Navy’s ‘Southern Lightning’ Event NIWC Atlantic and NSWC Crane's "Southern Lightning," supported by Sullivan's Island (Mayor O'Neil), tested unmanned systems communications for a hybrid fleet. Part of Silent Swarm, it integrates manned/unmanned systems. Testing used vehicles supported by the USS Cole and SC...
05 May 2025 Exercise Obangame Express holds Opening Ceremony in Cabo Verde PRAIA, Cabo Verde — Obangame Express 2025 (OE 25), sponsored by United States Africa Command and conducted by U.S. Sixth Fleet, held the opening ceremony for the exercise May 5th, 2025 in host nation Cabo Verde...
05 May 2025 U.S. 6th Fleet and STRIKFORNATO kick off Exercise Formidable Shield 2025 BODØ, Norway — Eleven Allied nations kick off exercise At Sea Demonstration (ASD) / Formidable Shield (FS) 25, led by U.S. 6th Fleet and executed by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), in the North and Norwegian Seas and North Atlantic Ocean, May 3, 2025...
02 May 2025 U.S. Navy Proves Sea-Based Hypersonic Launch Approach The U.S. Navy's Strategic Systems Programs is continuing on the path toward the nation's first sea-based hypersonic fielding with a successful end-to-end flight test of a conventional hypersonic missile from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This test marked the first launch...
30 April 2025 Navy Awards Contract Modification for Two Additional Virginia-Class Submarines WASHINGTON – Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a two-ship contract modification on the existing Virginia-class submarine Block V contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) for the construction of two FY 2024 Virginia-class submarines...
30 April 2025 NPS Energy Academic Group, International Fellow Add Expertise to Black Sea Maritime Forum Experts from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) contributed their insights and leadership to the Black Sea Maritime Forum hosted by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa (NAVEUR/NAVAF), April 15-17. Now in its fourth year, the forum provides a platform for discussion on enhanced security cooperation and...
29 April 2025 Commander, Navy Installations Command Announces the Navy’s 2024 Fire & Emergency Services Award Recipients Commander, Navy Installations Command announced the 2024 Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES) Award winners during a ceremony at the United States Naval Academy on April 23...
28 April 2025 Southern Lightning: NIWC Atlantic, NSWC Crane Advance Navy’s Unmanned Mission SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic completed a week of intensive research and communications testing on April 18 involving unmanned autonomous systems off the coast of Sullivan’s Island in partnership with Indiana-based Naval Surface Warfare...
25 April 2025 Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Identifies Missing Crew Member PHILIPPINE SEA – Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Gabriel D. Holt, from Washington, Utah, has been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) after being reported unaccounted for Saturday morning while the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) was conducting a regularly...