20 April 2020 Surface Warfare Center Designs Portable Oxygen Manifolds for Camp Pendleton COVID-19 Response NSWC Corona designed a low cost, mass-producible medical oxygen manifold for Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton COVID-19 response planning. The device allows treatment of eight patients using a single oxygen cylinder...
20 April 2020 Bahrain Fleet Mail Center Steps Up to Support 6th Fleet With Mail Operations With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting missions worldwide, the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Bahrain Fleet Mail Center (FMC) supported mail operations throughout the U.S. 6th Fleet, while supporting normal operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of...
20 April 2020 Comfort Admits Patients From New Jersey The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) began admitting patients from hospitals in New Jersey April 17 in an effort to expand its support of the nation's COVID-19 response efforts...
20 April 2020 Second Unsafe Intercept by Russia in U.S. Sixth Fleet For the second time in four days, Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner while intercepting a U.S. Navy P-8A Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft in U.S. Sixth Fleet, 19 April, 2020...
18 April 2020 USS Vermont Becomes Latest Virginia-Class Fast-Attack Submarine in Service The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Vermont (SSN 792), the 19th Virginia-class attack submarine, April 18...
18 April 2020 Pacific Fleet Announces 2019 Sea, Shore Sailors of the Year U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) announced the selection of Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Jason Webley and Utilitiesman 1st Class Joseph Rubino as the 2019 Sea and Shore Sailors of the Year...
17 April 2020 Update to Restriction of Movement Guidance In an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and keep Sailors healthy, unit commanders now have the authority to place personnel on a 14-day Restriction of Movement (ROM) period prior to deploying, getting underway or conducting operations...
17 April 2020 NAVFAC Southwest Battles COVID-19 with $2.6 Million for Disinfecting Services NAVFAC Southwest awarded a not-to-exceed $2.6 million indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity blanket task order on March 19 to EWA Direction of Honolulu, Hawaii for critical cleaning and disinfecting of confirmed COVID-19 cases at military facilities within the command's area of responsibility...
17 April 2020 Navy Hospital's Car-Based Triage Assists Emergency Dept in Wake of COVID-19 In March 2020, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) implemented a Car Triage screening process in wake of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19...
17 April 2020 Navy Awards Ship to Shore Connector Contract As Program Continues to Progress Today, the Navy awarded a contract for the Fiscal Year 2017-2020 procurement of Ship to Shore Connector craft...