06 January 2022 New Director Takes the Helm of Navy Medicine Civilian Corps FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The Navy Medical Department began 2022 by welcoming a new Director of the Medical Civilian Corps...
23 December 2021 Sustainment Solutions: ONR Global, Chilean Navy Hold AVANTE Challenge to Address Maritime Sustainment Issues Viña del Mar, Chile - In an effort to strengthen naval capabilities in the area of maritime sustainment—specifically, the rapid repair of ships in dry dock—the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global and the Chilean Naval Polytechnic Academy recently held the 2021 AVANTE Challenge...
21 December 2021 NAVSAFECEN Awards Safety Professionals of the Year 2021 NORFOLK, Va. - Rear Adm. F.R. Luchtman, Naval Safety Center (NAVSAFECEN) commander, presented the 2021 Safety Professionals of the Year (SPOY) awards on Dec. 9...
16 December 2021 Remote Fueling: Increasing Time on Target WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - With frost on the ground, Sailors and Marines can see their breath creating cold clouds of condensation as they move around exiting their camouflaged tents on the edge of a remote airfield on Wallops Island, Virginia. In the distance, the sound of radio chatter and propeller...
16 December 2021 Navy Announces Winners of its First Distinguished Fellows Program for HBCU/MIs ARLINGTON, Va. - The Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program—located at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—recently announced the inaugural winners of its Distinguished Fellows Program...
13 December 2021 USS Iwo Jima arrives in Norfolk after Homeport Shift NORFOLK, Va. – Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), conducted a homeport shift from Mayport, Fla. and arrived at its new homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Dec. 13...
08 December 2021 ‘Our Time to Innovate is Now’: Chief of Naval Research Reimagines Naval Power for 21st Century ARLINGTON, Va. - Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin C. Selby shared his vision for reimagining naval power in a new video building on his recent appearance at November’s HacktheMachine Unmanned competition, a technology challenge aimed at accelerating discovery and team building between the...
08 December 2021 USFFC Holds Change of Command, Welcomes 43rd Commander NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Christopher Grady was relieved by Adm. Daryl Caudle as commander, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFFC), in a ceremony aboard aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 7...
07 December 2021 NAVFAC’s First SIOP OICC Announces Selection of Civilian, Military Engineers of the Year NORFOLK, Va. - Officer in Charge of Construction (OICC) Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Maine recently announced its selection for the 2022 Civilian and Military Engineers of the Year...
07 December 2021 NNSY Ships Played Pivotal Role in Defending Pearl Harbor Attack PORTSMOUTH, Va. - It was only a day later when President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it “a date which will live in infamy.”...