05 March 2020 Construction Begins on Bath Iron Works' First Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Construction of the future USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126) officially began at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard on Mar. 3. The milestone was marked by a ceremony at BIW's structural fabrication facility in Brunswick, Maine...
05 March 2020 Fleet Familiarization Seminar Educates Fleet Operators, Increases Fleet Readiness Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic hosted the quarterly fleet Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) familiarization seminar to increase fleet readiness February 11-14, in Norfolk, Virginia...
05 March 2020 Naval Info Warfare Systems Command Spotlights Digital Transformation at WEST 2020 Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) joined nine Navy commands at the U.S. Navy Information Warfare (IW) Pavilion to demonstrate current efforts and ongoing initiatives in the area of digital transformation at WEST 2020 March 2-3 at the San Diego Convention Center...
05 March 2020 Chief Learning Officer Visits Campus to Discuss New Education for Seapower Strategy Department of the Navy Chief Learning Officer John Kroger spoke to U.S. Naval War College faculty and staff Feb. 27 about the institution's place in the new Education for Seapower Strategy 2020, released March 2 by Navy and Marine Corps leaders...
05 March 2020 Archival Adventures: Graduate Certificate in Maritime History Awarded to First Students in New Program Cmdr. Maxwell Oliver’s eye was drawn to a poster designed to look like an old-fashioned handbill...
05 March 2020 Powering an Island In the Indian Ocean, Navy Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Far East's Public Works Department keeps the lights on, the buildings cool, and the food fresh onboard U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia. Behind the scenes is PWD's Electrician's Mate 1st Class Alexander Schultz...
05 March 2020 U.S. Navy Kicks Off ICEX 2020 Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR) officially commenced Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2020 in the Arctic Ocean with the construction of a temporary ice camp, Camp Seadragon, and the arrival of two U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines March 4...
05 March 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group arrives in Vietnam USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) arrived in Da Nang, March 5, for a scheduled port visit commemorating 25 years of U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic relations...
04 March 2020 Crown Prince of Bahrain Visits NAVCENT The Crown Prince of Bahrain, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, visited U.S. Naval Forces Central Command...
03 March 2020 Ike and Charles de Gaulle Participate in Cross-Deck Aircraft Launches and Recoveries The Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) participated in cross-deck inter-operability exercises in the Mediterranean Sea March 3...