21 September 2023 Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Makes Its First Port Visit in Yokosuka, Japan YOKOSUKA, Japan - The unmanned surface vessels (USVs) Ranger and Mariner from Unmanned Surface Vessel Division ONE (USVDIV-1) arrived at Fleet Activities Yokosuka on September 18 as part of a scheduled port visit during Integrated Battle Problem (IBP) 23.2...
19 September 2023 U.S. facilitates Philippine Air Force AOC, ISR training At the request of the government of the Philippines, the 505th Training Squadron located at Hurlburt Field, Florida, sent a team of U.S. Air Force Air Operations Center Formal Training Unit instructors to Villamor Air Base, Philippines, from Aug. 10-19. The instructors trained twenty-eight members...
19 September 2023 The World’s Largest Aircraft Carrier Arrives in Trieste TRIESTE, Italy - The U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), embarked staff from Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12, and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61), arrived in Trieste, Italy for a scheduled port visit, Sept. 17, 2023...
19 September 2023 First Phase of the MAGPIE Weather and Climate Experiment Completed in Barbados WASHINGTON - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) completed its contribution to the Moisture and Aerosol Gradients/Physics of Inversion Evolution (MAGPIE) program, the first phase of an 18-month mission in Barbados...
18 September 2023 Research Squadron VXS-1 Mobilizes Quickly to Track Hurricane Idalia PATUXENT RIVER, Md. – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 mobilized a crew for a NP-3C Orion operation with less than 24 hours’ notice to airdrop 18 SOFAR Spotter buoys in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Idalia on Monday, August 28...
18 September 2023 SECNAV Names Ship After American Abolitionist, Social Activist Harriet Tubman CHURCH CREEK, Md. - Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced today that he named a U.S. Navy ship after American abolitionist and social activist Harriet Tubman, Sept. 17...
16 September 2023 USS San Jacinto (CG-56) Decommissions, Honoring 35 Years of Service NORFOLK, Va. – USS San Jacinto (CG-56) honored more than three decades of naval service during a decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Sept. 15...
15 September 2023 Pacific Partnership 2023 Concludes Third Stop in Malaysia KUANTAN, Malaysia – Pacific Partnership 2023 has concluded its mission stop in Kuantan during a closing ceremony hosted aboard the Harpers-Ferry class dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor, Sept. 15...
14 September 2023 NPS Advances Energy Resilience, Sustainability Through Microgrid Research Over the past five years, a multidisciplinary team of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) faculty has been supporting the development of an energy renaissance of sorts with the potential to redefine what it means to be energy resilient. At the same time, the team is directly supporting the advancement...
14 September 2023 Navy Wounded Warrior Hosts Online Esports Tournament to Support Rehabilitation and Community-Building Navy Wounded Warrior is offering a new way for the seriously wounded, ill and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen currently enrolled in Navy Wounded Warrior to connect via its first online esports tournament on September 30 at 1400 ET with a 2v2 Tournament featuring Rocket League...