26 February 2026 Task Force Ashland, USS Ashland arrive in Thailand for Exercise Cobra Gold 2026 CHUK SAMET, Thailand — Task Force (TF) Ashland, a forward-deployed force of U.S. Marines and Sailors aboard Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), arrived in the Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 22, to join approximately 8,000 service members from 30 nations for the 45th...
26 February 2026 AUKUS Submarine Maintenance Period Demonstrates Forward Sustainment in Australia HMAS STIRLING, Western Australia — Last November, on the edge of the Indian Ocean, just beyond mainland Australia and across the Garden Island Causeway to HMAS Stirling, a U.S. Virginia-class submarine quietly completed the first submarine maintenance period without the support of a U.S...
25 February 2026 Secretary of War inducts Naval Aviator and Medal of Honor recipient into the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes Last night President Donald J. Trump awarded retired Navy Capt. Elmer Royce Williams the Medal of Honor at the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol. Today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle inducted Williams...
10 February 2026 Navy Public Affairs Renames, Realigns to Deliver More Capable Forces Marking a significant reorganization of expeditionary public affairs forces, the Navy redesignated Navy Public Affairs Support Element (NPASE) Headquarters as Navy Public Affairs Command (NPAC) and renamed all subordinate units Fleet Public Affairs Centers (FLTPACENs) Jan. 9...
09 February 2026 From Baseball Pitcher to Navy Medicine’s Biochemistry Officer of the Year From the pitcher’s mound to the front lines of naval science, Lt. Cmdr. Elih M. Velazquez-Delgado’s unconventional path has culminated in one of Navy Medicine’s highest honors...
30 January 2026 NAVSTA Rota Unaccompanied Housing Undergoes Renovations Naval Station (NAVSTA) Rota continues to undergo a series of renovations and modernizations, worth more that $13 million, to its unaccompanied housing that is scheduled to continue through 2026...
28 January 2026 NIWC Atlantic Releases First Industry Opportunities Under New Rapid Capabilities Office NIWC Atlantic’s new Rapid Capabilities Office released its first contract opportunities in January 2026 under its Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) in an effort to rapidly accelerate the delivery of commercial technology to the Fleet at the speed of relevance...
15 December 2025 Rapidly Developed Counter-Drone Prototype Succeeds at NATO’s Bold Machina A new, innovative detection system for countering uncrewed aerial systems (c-UAS) conducted its first field tests at sea during the Bold Machina (BOMA) exercise in the Netherlands this September. Rapidly developed by a small team led by officer-scholars from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), the...
09 December 2025 U.S., Japan Naval Forces Complete Mine Warfare Exercise 3JA 2025 The U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) completed Mine Warfare Exercise (MINEX) 3JA 2025 off the coast of Southern Japan near Aburatsu, Nov. 12-26...
08 December 2025 A Paradigm Shift: Navy Establishes First Information Warfare Squadron Information Warfare Squadron (IWRON) Two, a first-of-its-kind unit designed to operationalize Information Warfare (IW) capabilities and provide decisive decision advantage to Carrier Strike Group Commanders, was established, Dec. 5...