11 May 2021 Navy Forecasting Provides 45-day Advanced Environmental Predictions WASHINGTON — Earth’s ocean-navigating environment just got a little less mysterious thanks to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory developed Navy Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC) global forecasting system that went live in late August...
11 May 2021 Flank Speed – Navy’s Transition to Improved Microsoft 365 Cloud Collaboration WASHINGTON, D.C. - Beginning June 1, the Navy workforce will gain access to a single Microsoft Office 365 (M365) collaboration and productivity environment known as Flank Speed that will improve security and, over time, deliver additional tools to support a more productive Navy workforce...
10 May 2021 CNO and Maine Senators Visit Bath Iron Works; CNO emphasizes shipbuilding Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday, travelled to Bath, Maine, May 10 to visit Bath Iron Works with Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Angus King...
10 May 2021 Unsafe and Unprofessional Interaction with IRGCN FIAC in Strait of Hormuz NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN - On May 10, 2021, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) fast in-shore attack craft (FIAC), a type of speedboat armed with machine guns, conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers and failed to exercise due regard for the safety of U.S. forces as...
10 May 2021 NAVFAC Atlantic Awards Modification Under a Firm-Fixed-Price Contract for 175-Ton Portal Crane at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard NORFOLK, Va. - Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic awarded Konecranes Nuclear Equipment and Services LLC, located in New Berlin, Wisconsin, a $43,506,432 modification under a firm-fixed-price contract for the exercise of Option Two, which provides for one 175-ton portal crane at...
07 May 2021 NAVSUP, mission partners in Spain enhance crewmembers’ morale, mission capability during USS Iwo Jima’s maintenance period NAS SIGONELLA, Sicily - During Iwo Jima Amphibious Readiness Group’s (IWOARG’s) replenishment-at-sea (RAS) and its flagship’s logistics and maintenance period (LMP) April 23-27, 2021 at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Rota, Spain, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella (NAVSUP FLCSI)...
06 May 2021 NRL Designs Faster, More Energy Efficient Unpiloted Underwater Vehicles WASHINGTON, D.C. - NRL Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Laboratories for Computational Physics & Fluid Dynamics designs faster and more energy efficient underwater vehicles using bioinspired shark skin-like surfaces...
05 May 2021 Center for Surface Combat Systems Det West Changes Hands; Capt. Will Retire after 38 Years SAN DIEGO - Capt. Jon Grant, officer in charge, turned over command of Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) Det West to Capt. Brandon Bryan, commanding officer of CSCS’ Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center (FASW), April 30...
05 May 2021 CNO Hosts First Sea Lord for Counterpart Visit U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday hosted U.K. First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff Adm. Tony Radakin for a formal counterpart visit May 4-5, in Washington, D.C...
05 May 2021 ONI Change of Command SUITLAND, Md. - Rear Adm. Gene Price (left) relieved Rear Adm. Kelly Aeschbach (right) as commander, Office of Naval Intelligence, in a change of command ceremony May 3 at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, Md. Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler (center), deputy chief of naval operations...