01 August 2024 USS Preble to Forward Deploy to Japan YOKOSUKA, Japan - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) will move to Yokosuka, Japan, as part of a scheduled rotation of forces in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy announced today. This move will be a permanent change of station for the crew and family members...
01 August 2024 Battle Blimps: ONR-Sponsored STEM Contest Shows Creativity of Student Engineers Held multiple times a year at varying locations, Defend the Republic showcases numerous university teams led by ONR-sponsored professors who mentor their student participants. Support comes from STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) funding from ONR’s Warfighter Performance...
31 July 2024 NRL Scientists Identify New Class of Semiconductor Nanocrystals WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists confirm the identification of a new class of semiconductor nanocrystals with bright ground-state excitons, a significant advancement in the field of optoelectronics, in an article recently published in...
31 July 2024 Operation Ice Camp Yields Treasure Trove of Arctic Data for NPS Students, Faculty MONTEREY, Calif. — Early this year, inside the Arctic Circle – thousands of miles from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) campus in Monterey – a small team of students and faculty undertook a critical scientific research expedition, working with the Undersea Warfighting...
30 July 2024 Task Force 59 Holds Change of Command Ceremony MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s Task Force (TF) 59 welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony aboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, July 30...
30 July 2024 Navy’s 70+ acre Old Town Campus Revitalization Moves Forward SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy’s proposal to revitalize the 70.3-acre Naval Base Point Loma Old Town Campus to provide new facilities for Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) continues to move forward. The Navy is working closely with selected developer Manchester Financial...
30 July 2024 First Royal Australian Navy Sailors Graduate From Basic Enlisted Submarine School GROTON, Conn. – In a first for the AUKUS trilateral enhanced security partnership, a group of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) enlisted sailors has graduated from the United States Navy’s Basic Enlisted Submarine School (BESS). The sailors all graduated with distinction with one of them being...
30 July 2024 USS Wasp Celebrates 35th Birthday MEDITERRANEAN SEA – Sailors and Marines walk about passageways as the ship’s air conditioning system works overtime under the beating sun. These deckplates have supported the weight of servicemembers across the armed services through oceans and seas around the world...
29 July 2024 World War II Navy Veteran Receives Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Eighty-one years after serving as an Aviation Radioman-gunner in World War II, a 99-year-old Navy Veteran received a Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal, July 25, 2024 at the California State Capitol Building in Sacramento...
29 July 2024 MAKO Global 2024 Enhances Warfighting Readiness for Reserve Sailors NORFOLK, Va. — Reserve Sailors from across the U.S. gathered for the first MAKO Global 2024, an operational level of war (OLW) exercise featuring a Maritime Operations Center (MOC) training scenario simultaneously run in three locations, coast to coast. The introduction of MAKO Global...