28 April 2025 Continuing Promise 2025 Completes Planning USNS Comfort to Deploy to SOUTHCOM Region NORFOLK, Va. — Military and civilian planners from the United States and six partner nations met this week in Norfolk, Va., to make final plans for the upcoming Continuing Promise 2025 deployment...
28 April 2025 Navy Reserve Force Officially 100% Manned, Advancing Warfighting Readiness and Strategic Depth WASHINGTON — The Navy Reserve Force is officially 100% manned. This week, the Reserve reached its authorized strength of 57,700 Sailors for Fiscal Year 2025, the first time since 2020, reinforcing the Navy’s ability to project power, respond to global contingencies, and deliver...
28 April 2025 Southern Lightning: NIWC Atlantic, NSWC Crane Advance Navy’s Unmanned Mission SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic completed a week of intensive research and communications testing on April 18 involving unmanned autonomous systems off the coast of Sullivan’s Island in partnership with Indiana-based Naval Surface Warfare...
28 April 2025 USNS Sojourner Truth Christened as MSC’s Newest Fleet Replenishment Oiler SAN DIEGO — Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) newest fleet replenishment oiler USNS Sojourner Truth (T-AO 210), was christened during a ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Calif., last night...
25 April 2025 Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Identifies Missing Crew Member PHILIPPINE SEA – Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Gabriel D. Holt, from Washington, Utah, has been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (DUSTWUN) after being reported unaccounted for Saturday morning while the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) was conducting a regularly...
25 April 2025 Night Flight Operations:USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) Conducts Routine Flight Operations Around the Clock Observing nighttime flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is like watching a meticulously choreographed ballet unfold under the cover of darkness...
25 April 2025 Navy Awards $3.5B Contract to Northrop Grumman to Develop Successor to E-6B Mercury The Navy announced in December it 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...
25 April 2025 Navy Awards $3.5B Contract to Northrop Grumman to Develop Successor to E-6B Mercury The Navy announced in December it 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...
24 April 2025 NIWC Atlantic Advances Navy’s Unmanned Mission With NSWC Crane, U.S. Fleet Forces NIWC Atlantic completed a week of testing on April 18, 2025, involving unmanned autonomous systems off the coast of Sullivan’s Island in partnership with Indiana-based Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division and U.S. Fleet Forces Command...
24 April 2025 NPS Helps Joint Chiefs Develop Integrated Military, Economic Deterrence Options to Chinese Aggression When former Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Force Development (J7) director U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Stuart Munsch needed a cross-disciplinary team of regional and defense experts to examine in detail a full suite of integrated deterrence options for the Indo-Pacific theatre, he called upon the...