01 December 2021 NPS Student-Professor Team Connects Research to Marines in the Field MONTEREY, Calif. - This past Summer, a Marine infantry officer and a cryptographer from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) journeyed to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) was holding the Pacific Sentry 2021 field exercise. Their mission … to...
24 November 2021 NAVSUP WSS Introduces Repair War Room to Bolster Organic Repair PHILADELPHIA - As part of the on-going Naval Sustainment System (NSS) – Supply Optimize Organic Repair (Aviation) pillar initiative, Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) partnered with the Navy’s Commander, Fleet Readiness Centers (COMFRC) and the Defense Logistics Agency...
09 November 2021 NPS Students Finish Strong, Take Top Honors, in NavalX Challenge MONTEREY, Calif. - A field of 200 participants from across the Navy stepped forward to be a force for innovation in the sea services through the NavalX Agility Summit Challenge, part of NaxalX’s annual Agility Summit...
22 October 2021 The Race Is On: NRL Argon Fluoride Laser to Advance Fusion Energy WASHINGTON — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory experts race toward sustainable clean energy with advances in fusion energy. Steve Obenschain, Ph.D., a research physicist at NRL, said nuclear fusion would be a valuable addition to clean energy sources because it can provide baseload electrical power...
29 September 2021 Navy Continues Block III Super Hornet Testing, Accepts First New Production Jet NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the first new-production Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet on Aug. 31...
17 September 2021 Naval Supply Systems Command Cash War Room Keeping NWCF Solvent PHILADELPHIA - The Navy introduced Naval Sustainment System (NSS) – Supply in October 2020 to design a single, strategic-scale, sustainable Navy-wide supply chain. As part of NSS-Supply’s cash recovery plan for the Navy Working Capital Fund-Supply Management (NWCF-SM), Naval Supply Systems Command...
16 July 2021 NAVFAC Atlantic Awards $5B Global Contingency Construction Contract NORFOLK, Va. - Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic awarded six businesses Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Contracts (MAC) July 15 for contingency construction projects with a maximum amount of $5,000,000,000...
28 June 2021 Naval Supply Systems Command earns SECDEF Environmental Award for sustainability MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - The Department of Defense announced Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support as the winner of the 2021 Secretary of Defense Environmental Award in the Sustainability Individual/Team category...
04 June 2021 U.S. 2nd Fleet Breaks Communication Barriers, Seeks to Establish a System Agnostic Approach at Sea ATLANTIC OCEAN - Commander, U.S. Second Fleet (C2F) and Joint Force Command Norfolk (JFCNF) communications staff broke barriers between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and partners and U.S. Naval forces by establishing a system agnostic approach that allowed users to communicate in...
01 June 2021 Naval Beach Unit 7 Changes Command SASEBO, Japan (May 28, 2021) – Cmdr. Wilbur Hines assumed command of Naval Beach Unit (NBU) 7 from Cmdr. Kirk Sowers during a change of command ceremony in Sasebo, Japan, May 28...