24 January 2025 NPS’ Latest CubeSat Launch Furthers International Collaboration in Space MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has once again boldly gone into low Earth orbit, where its faculty and students’ research will impact the national security of the nation and its allies...
23 January 2025 Former ONR Performers Win Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics ARLINGTON, Va. -- ONR is proud to add two new names to that prestigious list — Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington (UW) and Dr. John Hopfield of Princeton University, who received the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry and physics, respectively...
16 January 2025 SECNAV Del Toro Names Future Medium Landing Ship LSM 1 Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced Jan. 16, USS McClung (LSM 1) as the name for the first ship in the new McClung-class of medium landing ships...
16 January 2025 Groundbreaking Ceremony Launches Construction of Nuclear Regional Maintenance Facility at Kings Bay NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE KINGS BAY, Ga. -- Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southeast hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the construction of a new facility for the Nuclear Regional Maintenance Department (NRMD) at Naval Submarine Base (NSB) Kings Bay, Georgia. The facility...
16 January 2025 C-130 Hercules 70 Years Strong and Growing PATUXENT RIVER, Md. -- The ever-enduring C-130 Hercules celebrated 70 years of unwavering service last year. Since its inception in 1954, the Hercules continues to be used in over 70 countries with more than a million flight hours and growing...
15 January 2025 The Department of the Navy Office of Strategic Assessment is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of the Naval Strategic Studies Group Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro selected six members for this group, who will undertake a strategic studies capstone project and learn to navigate strategic challenges through a series of senior leader engagements. This full-time assignment will run through September. ...
14 January 2025 SECNAV Del Toro Announces Navy Expeditionary Medal for U.S. Fifth Fleet Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro awarded the Navy Expeditionary Medal to U.S. Fifth Fleet for exceptional leadership and achievements from June. 25 , 2021, to Sept. 30, 2024 during Operation Unified Takedown today, Jan. 14...
10 January 2025 NPS Hosts AI Hackathon for Students to Solve Military Operational Problems Monterey, Calif. — The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently hosted its inaugural artificial intelligence (AI) Hackathon event in the newly established Emerging Technology and Innovation Lab at the Dudley Knox Library, Dec. 13-17, 2024...
07 January 2025 Navy awards $3.5B contract to Northrop Grumman to develop successor to E-6B Mercury aircraft NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, MD -- The U.S. Navy announced today that it has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $3.5 billion contract to conduct the mission-systems integration for the E-130J, which will be the successor to the E-6B Mercury for the Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) mission...
31 December 2024 Cooking an Innovation Stew: Promoting NavalX at Naval S&T Symposium Hosted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the American Society of Naval Engineers, the symposium enabled attendees across the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, industry and academia to meet, discuss and learn about “Naval S&T: From Idea to Maritime Dominance.”...