14 October 2020 Naval Exchange Service Command to Release Public Health Commissioned Corps' First PT Uniform The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) is scheduled to debut a physical training uniform (PTU) tailored specifically for the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in December 2020. This PTU will be the first official physical training uniform for the USPHS...
13 October 2020 Secretary Names Future Destroyer, Attack Submarine Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Kenneth J. Braithwaite announced Oct. 13 that a future Guided-missile destroyer and Virginia-class attack submarine will be named USS John F. Lehman (DDG 137) and USS Barb (SSN 804)...
13 October 2020 Navy Announces Plan to Build New Museum Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Kenneth J. Braithwaite announced today at the Washington Navy Yard that the U.S. Navy intends to build a new National Museum of the U.S. Navy (NMUSN)...
13 October 2020 Navy Awards Modification for Facilities Support Service Contract for Patuxent River Site Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Washington has awarded a $15.8 million firm-fixed-price modification for the facilities support services contract at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River (NAS PAX), Sept. 25, to Diversified Service Contracting, Inc...
12 October 2020 USS Cole Honors Sailors in Ceremony Marking 20th Anniversary of Terrorist Attack USS Cole (DDG 67) hosted a pierside ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk Oct. 12, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Cole, to honor the Sailors killed and to celebrate the heroism of the ship’s crew...
12 October 2020 Department of Defense Awards Tranche 1 5G Prototypes The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) announced the awards of the Tranche 1 5G prototypes, on October 8...
08 October 2020 Navy Exchange to Focus on Safety This Holiday Season This year, NEX holiday pricing will begin on Oct. 8 and, to lessen crowds in its stores, any previous one-day sales will be replaced with three-day sales to give customers more time to shop...
08 October 2020 Navy Meteorology Orgs Demonstrate Cloud-Based Modeling to Predict Cyclones Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) and Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division (NRL MMD) recently demonstrated a developmental cloud-based system to improve forecasting of a tropical cyclone's path and intensity...
07 October 2020 SECNAV Names Navy’s Newest Class of FFG(X) Ships Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite announced USS Constellation (FFG 62) as the name for the first ship in the new Guided Missile Frigate (FFG(X)) class of ships Oct. 7 while aboard the museum ship Constellation in Baltimore Inner Harbor...
07 October 2020 Naval Education and Training Command Launches New Website Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) completed a migration and modernization of the command’s public-facing website to the Defense Media Activity’s Department of Defense Public Web (DoDPW) web hosting and content management system, American Forces Public Information Management System...