04 August 2023 Navy Awards DDG 51 FY23-27 Multiyear Procurement Contracts WASHINGTON – The Navy awarded contracts to Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding Division (HII Ingalls) and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (GD BIW) for the fiscal years (FY) 2023 - 2027 multiyear procurement (MYP) of DDG 51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers, August 1...
31 July 2023 Naval Reactors Celebrates 75 Years WASHINGTON - August 4 marks the birthday of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, a joint Department of Navy and Department of Energy organization responsible for all aspects of the Navy’s nuclear propulsion, including research, design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance, and...
27 July 2023 JCREW Counter IED Program Achieves Full Operational Capability WASHINGTON - The Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) announced that the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) Increment One Block One (I1B1) program has achieved full operational capability ahead of schedule...
20 July 2023 New Supercomputer at Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center Adds Over 17 petaFLOPS of Computing Power to DoD Capability STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - The HPE Cray EX4000 system will address physics, AI, and ML applications for thousands of DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users...
19 July 2023 NRL Astronomers Track New Stellar Phenomenon WASHINGTON, DC - NRL's Very Large Array (VLA) Low-band Ionosphere and Transient Experiment (VLITE) telescope has helped astronomers confirm findings of a new stellar phenomenon that challenges current scientific understanding of the physics of neutron stars...
17 July 2023 A First Look at Naval Oceanography’s New ‘North Star’ Data Strategy STENNIS SPACE CENTER - Officials in the Naval Oceanography enterprise (NOe) spent the last nearly two years crafting and refining an original data strategy that sets their unique organization’s overarching guiding principles, essential capabilities, goals and objectives to...
17 July 2023 Naval Oceanography Attends Int’l Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium Staff from the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) attended the third International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium (OSOS-3), June 12-15...
13 July 2023 First In-Space Laser Power Beaming Experiment Surpasses 100 Days of Successful On-Orbit Operations WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Space Wireless Energy Laser Link (SWELL) surpassed 100 days of successful on-orbit laser operations on June 29, 2023, coinciding with the NRL’s 100th birthday celebration. Launched on March 14, 2023, this experiment represents...
11 July 2023 USNS Burlington Hosts Launch of Unmanned Surface Vehicle CARRIBEAN SEA – U.S. Navy Sailors partnered with Military Sealift Command civilian mariners and civilian contractors in a collaborative effort to successfully launch a Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle (USV) from expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Burlington (T-EPF...
29 June 2023 NRL, 100 Years Strong! WASHINGTON, DC - In just a few days, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory will celebrate 100 years of service as the Navy's corporate laboratory with a rich history of performing advanced scientific research and making significant contributions to U.S. military forces on, under, and above the...