31 October 2023 Navy Announces Latest Shore Energy Goals during Energy Action Month WASHINGTON (NNS) - The Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Meredith Berger, who also serves as Chief Sustainability Officer for the Department, along with the whole Department of the Navy team, has been hard at work during National Clean Energy Action Month...
06 October 2023 U.S. 5th Fleet Enhances Middle East Maritime Security with Unmanned Capabilities MANAMA, Bahrain - Last month, naval forces in the Middle East region successfully integrated unmanned platforms with traditionally crewed ships and aircraft to conduct enhanced maritime security operations in the waters surrounding the Arabian Peninsula...
04 October 2023 NPS Team Makes Key Breakthrough on Path to Electric Aircraft Propulsion MONTEREY, Calif. — As an institution renowned for innovation efforts grounded in education and research, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has often been called upon to tackle some of the most difficult technological challenges facing the Navy and the nation...
29 September 2023 America’s Ears in Space: NRO Declassified NRL-Developed Electronic Intelligence Satellite Program ARLINGTON, Va. — During a Centennial Exhibition, held at the Pentagon on Sept. 28, to commemorate the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) 100 years of operations, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) declassified an NRL-developed electronic intelligence satellite program...
21 September 2023 DLA Energy Continues to Expand Utilities Support to U.S. Navy FORT BELVOIR, Va. – Defense Logistics Agency Energy continues to expand its utilities partnership with the U.S. Navy, increasing the service’s energy reliability, security and resilience...
19 September 2023 First Phase of the MAGPIE Weather and Climate Experiment Completed in Barbados WASHINGTON - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) completed its contribution to the Moisture and Aerosol Gradients/Physics of Inversion Evolution (MAGPIE) program, the first phase of an 18-month mission in Barbados...
18 September 2023 Research Squadron VXS-1 Mobilizes Quickly to Track Hurricane Idalia PATUXENT RIVER, Md. – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 mobilized a crew for a NP-3C Orion operation with less than 24 hours’ notice to airdrop 18 SOFAR Spotter buoys in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Idalia on Monday, August 28...
14 September 2023 Saildrones Set Sail in Support of U.S. 4th Fleet’s Operation Windward Stack KEY WEST, Florida – Commercial operators began deploying 10 Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) out to sea today, a critical first step in U.S. 4th Fleet’s Operation Windward Stack...
07 September 2023 Navy Accepts Upgraded E-6B Mercury, Delivering Enhanced Capabilities to the Fleet LAKE CHARLES, La. - The U.S. Navy in June accepted the first E-6B Mercury upgraded by Northrop Grumman Corp. in Lake Charles, Louisiana, delivering enhanced airborne strategic communication capabilities to the warfighter...
05 September 2023 FRCSW STEM in Action NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. - When Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) STEM ambassadors visit local communities, their goal is to utilize the STEM outreach program to inspire and create valuable opportunities to learn for both students and educators. The program also tries to empower...