14 January 2021 Elevated Equipment: DoD Awards $50 Million for Defense-Related Scientific Research The Department of Defense (DoD) recently awarded $50 million in grants to 150 university scientists—54 of whom are sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—via the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)...
13 January 2021 USS Ronald Reagan Begins COVID-19 Vaccinations Sailors assigned to the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), began receiving initial COVID-19 vaccinations at Command Fleet Activities, Yokosuka (CFAY), Jan. 7...
13 January 2021 NPS Launches Naval Warfare Studies Institute to Expedite Fleet Warfighting Solutions The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently launched a new organization to expedite the Navy’s ability to access the university’s immense talent and resources in taking on its most complex warfighting issues...
12 January 2021 Navy Expeditionary Combat Command Leadership Receives COVID-19 Vaccine Rear Adm. Joseph DiGuardo, Commander Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) received the COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 11...
12 January 2021 Meritorious Advancement Program Updates for Navy Reserve Sailors Commander, Navy Reserve Force (CNRF) has released ALNAVRESFOR 001/21, announcing the latest changes and improvements to the Navy Reserve’s Meritorious Advancement Program (MAP-R)...
11 January 2021 Guam Hosts Partner Nations in Exercise SEA DRAGON 2021 Two P-8 Poseidon aircraft from Patrol Squadron 5 (VP-5), the “Mad Foxes,” joined several partner nations to kick off multinational anti-submarine warfare exercise Sea Dragon 2021, Jan. 12...
11 January 2021 New Year, Chapter in Fleet Readiness Center East's Support to Presidential Helo Program Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) marked the end of an era when artisans recently boxed up the last T58-GE-400B presidential helicopter engine and shipped it out to the Marines who provide safe and timely transportation of the president of the United States...
11 January 2021 USS William P. Lawrence Returns From U.S. 4th Fleet Deployment Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Jan. 11, following a deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations...
11 January 2021 Secretary of the Navy visits NOSC Newport, MSRON 8 Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite met with Reserve Sailors assigned to Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) Newport and Maritime Security Squadron 8 (MSRON 8) aboard Naval Station Newport, Jan. 9...
09 January 2021 Navy Posthumously Awards Navy Cross to WWII Chaplain Seventy-five years after the end of the war in the Pacific, the Department of the Navy posthumously awarded the Navy Cross to a World War II Chaplain...