04 April 2022 NRL develops photonic component library implementing first-of-its-kind Department of Navy trade secret license WASHINGTON - By working closely with AIM Photonics’ state-of-the-art foundry, NRL’s Optical Sciences Division is developing photonic components with functionalities targeting DoD priorities such as analog signal processing, quantum information and computing, data remoting, and navigation and timing...
04 April 2022 USS Milwaukee Returns Home After 4th Fleet Deployment NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. - The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) returned to Mayport, Fla. April 2, following its first successful deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations...
02 April 2022 President, First Lady celebrate commissioning of USS Delaware (SSN 791) WILMINGTON, Delaware – President of the United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and First Lady Jill Biden, the ship sponsor, celebrated the commissioning of the Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Delaware (SSN 791) Saturday, April 2, in a ceremony in Wilmington, Delaware...
02 April 2022 U.S., Iceland Kick Off Exercise Northern Viking 2022 U.S. Sailors and Marines joined multiple Allied Nations in kicking off U.S. Sixth Fleet’s Exercise Northern Viking 2022 (NV22) in Keflavik, Iceland, April 2, 2022...
02 April 2022 Navy Investigating Fuel/Water Release at Red Hill JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – The Navy is investigating a release of no more than 30 gallons of a water and fuel mixture in the vicinity of tanks 13 and 14 in the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. The release occurred at approximately 12:11 p.m. on Friday, April 1 and was stopped...
01 April 2022 Service Member Killed in E-2D Crash Identified NORFOLK, Va. - On Wednesday, March 30, Lt. Hyrum Hanlon, assigned to Airborne Command and Control Squadron (VAW) 120 lost his life when an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye conducting routine flight operations crashed in the vicinity of Wallops Island and Chincoteague, Va. ...
01 April 2022 NAVSUP Office of Small Business Programs welcomes companies with manufacturing and repair capabilities to upcoming events The Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) small business community will be attending Sea-Air-Space 2022, April 4-6, 2022 in National Harbor, Maryland and the 2022 Navy Gold Coast Conference, September 6-8, 2022 at the San Diego Convention Center. Small businesses with manufacturing and/or repair...
01 April 2022 FRCE exceeds annual environmental objectives Fleet Readiness Center East marked the end of 2021 on a high note by achieving or exceeding its annual environmental objectives. When 2021 drew to a close, FRCE had cut industrial wastewater generation by 45%, reduced energy intensity by 18%, and achieved a landfill diversion rate of 61%...
01 April 2022 U.S. Sixth Fleet Establishes Naval Amphibious Forces Europe Supporting Fully Integrated Navy-Marine Operations and Experimentation U.S. Sixth Fleet stood up Task Force 61 Naval Amphibious Forces Europe/ 2d Marine Division (TF-61/2) to synchronize command and control of deployed Navy and Marine Corps amphibious forces and advance the integrated Marine Corps capability in the Sixth Fleet area of operations (AOO) on March 16,...
31 March 2022 Vice Adm. Kitchener Visits USS Princeton Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, right, speaks with Lt. Cmdr. Scott Margolis, the operations officer aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59), during a scheduled visit to the ship...