03 June 2026 USS Carl Vinson Earns 2025 Battle “E” Award SAN DIEGO – The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) earned the 2025 aircraft carrier Battle Effectiveness award announced by Commander, Naval Air Forces, May 1...
29 May 2026 Library of Congress Recognizes NPS Library for ‘Project of the Year’ MONTEREY, Calif. — The Library of Congress announced the winners of its national awards for federal librarianship, and the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) library team received the first-ever Project of the Year award for its work modernizing NPS’s institutional digital archives...
18 May 2026 NRL Launches Glowbug-2 to Enhance Space Domain Awareness and Cosmic Anomaly Detection WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Glowbug-2 instrument successfully launched on board the Department of War (DoW) Space Test Program – Houston 11 (STP-H11) payload at approximately 6:05 p.m. EDT on May 15, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla...
18 May 2026 USS Cleveland (LCS 31) Commissions in Namesake City CLEVELAND (May 16, 2026) – The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest and last Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Cleveland (LCS 31) in Cleveland...
18 May 2026 USS Cooperstown (LCS 23) Departs Mayport for Deployment MAYPORT, Fla. – The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Cooperstown (LCS 23) got underway from Naval Station Mayport May 16, 2026, to begin operations in support of its scheduled deployment. Cooperstown assumed duties previously executed by the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS...
18 May 2026 Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) Arrives at Homeport for the First Time NORFOLK, Va. — The future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), a flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, arrived at its Naval Station Norfolk homeport for the first time on May 15, 2026...
08 May 2026 Naval Research Lab’s Plume Modeling Tool Now on Mobile Devices Supported by the Domestic Preparedness Support Initiative (DPSI), U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers are continuing to advance the Contaminant Transport Analyst (CT-Analyst) by adding plugin support for the Android Tactical Awareness Kit (ATAK), enabling shared situational awareness...
05 May 2026 USS Wichita Returns to Naval Station Mayport MAYPORT, Fla. – The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Wichita (LCS 13), operating under U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) in the Gulf of America, returned to Naval Station Mayport after completing a six-month deployment on May 4, 2026...
01 May 2026 U.S. and Canadian Maritime Forces Strengthen Alliance with Atlantic Maritime Security Coalition NORFOLK, Va. – U.S. and Canadian maritime leadership from Commander, U.S. Second Fleet (C2F), Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area, (LANTAREA), Maritime Forces Atlantic & Joint Task Force Atlantic (RCN MCC and JTF-A COM), and Fleet and Maritime Security Canadian Coast Guard (CCG)...
28 April 2026 Blue Ridge Returns to Yokosuka After Spring Patrol U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) returned to Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, April 23, marking the completion of the spring patrol in the Indo-Pacific region...