04 March 2021 CNO, MCPON Visit Florida Sailors Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russ Smith travelled to Florida to meet with Sailors, speak with local leadership, and visit a variety of commands, March 3-4...
04 March 2021 Maintenance and Modernization Summit Supports a Ready and Capable U.S. Navy Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP) hosted a Maintenance and Modernization Summit, Feb. 25-26 to ensure continued readiness of the U.S. Navy’s surface fleet...
03 March 2021 NETC Recognizes Force Development’s Top 2020 Military Instructors Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) announced its 2020 Military Instructors of the Year (MIOY) March 2 at a virtual ceremony from the command headquarters onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola...
02 March 2021 NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize In 2007, a team of scientists found the first fast radio burst, then described as Lorimer Bursts, after combing through archived data from the Parkes Observatory, in New South Wales, Australia. This extremely energetic burst originated in the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away,...
02 March 2021 Astrophysicist’s 2004 Theory Confirmed: Why the Sun’s Composition Varies About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun’s tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down. His theory has recently been validated by combined observations of the Sun’s magnetic waves from...
01 March 2021 From the Ocean Floor to the Dark Side of the Moon: NAVSEA and NASA Test Next-Generation Technology HOUSTON, Texas – The Navy teamed up with NASA astronauts and engineers in Houston last week to test an evolving technology that allows divers to improve underwater task efficiency for potential use in NASA’s planned return to the moon.Divers from the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Supervisor of Salvage...
26 February 2021 U.S. Navy Conducts First At-Sea Power Module Replenishment The “Titans” of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 and members of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 successfully delivered an F-35C power module aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the U. S. Navy’s first, at-sea replenishment for this component...
26 February 2021 U.S. 5th Fleet Responds to COVID-19 Aboard USS San Diego and USS Philippine Sea U.S. 5th Fleet took immediate actions to identify, isolate, test, and treat affected Sailors and Marines aboard two ships...
24 February 2021 7th Fleet Destroyer transits Taiwan Strait The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Feb. 24 (local time) in accordance with international law...
24 February 2021 NRL Supports Security for Biden’s Inauguration with Modeling Capability When seconds matter, speed saves lives. That’s why Adam Moses, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory computer scientist, deployed a 3D computer-simulated modeling program called Contaminant Transport Analyst, or CT-Analyst, as part of the massive security effort behind the inauguration of President Joe...