24 July 2019 NAVSAFECEN HOSTS SUAS SUMMIT The Naval Safety Center hosted a Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safety Summit July 9-10 at its headquarters. The purpose of the summit was to ensure alignment of safety reporting requirements by non-aviation UAS communities with NAVSAFECEN and Fleet UAS safety reporting...
24 July 2019 CSCSU Great Lakes Hosts LDO/CWO Program Event Center for Surface Combat Systems Unit (CSCSU) Great Lakes hosted a Limited Duty Officers (LDO)/Chief Warrant Officers (CWO) program highlighting opportunities and answering questions from Sailors interested in becoming LDOs/CWOs July 23...
24 July 2019 Truman Changes Command The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) held a change of command ceremony on the flag bridge while conducting a composite training unit exercise, July 24...
24 July 2019 U.S. Navy Surgeon General Visits Europe to Discuss Readiness and Medical Health Care Transition Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery discussed the future of Navy Medicine, and plans to prepare medical personnel for the next fight, while visiting Rota, Spain, Naples and Sigonella, Italy, July 17-23...
24 July 2019 U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Navy Conduct Tri-Party Staff Talks Members of Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet staff and the U.S Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command joined Canadian Armed Forces' Joint Task Force Atlantic for the 2019 Tri-Party Staff Talks at Canadian Armed Forces Base Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 18-20...
24 July 2019 St. Louis Crew Visits Namesake City Thirteen crew members from PCU St. Louis (LCS 19) arrived in its namesake city July 19, to engage with the community by highlighting the important mission of littoral combat ships and sharing the Navy's story...
24 July 2019 Compact Swaging Machine makes fleet debut The fleet's oldest aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz (CVN 68), became the first to deploy in June with the highly anticipated Compact Swaging Machine (CSM), which eliminates the time and manpower-intensive socket pouring process for producing purchase cable terminals...
24 July 2019 NAVFAC EXWC Establishes New Expeditionary Programs Office NAVFAC EXWC, NBVC's newest warfare center, announces the establishment of the Expeditionary Programs Office, an organization developed to expedite technologies that better serve the fleet...
24 July 2019 Comfort Begins Medical Services in Costa Rica Following Opening Ceremony Senior leadership from USNS Comfort (T-AH20) attended an opening ceremony to mark the beginning of the ship's medical mission stop in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, July 23...
24 July 2019 Undersecretary Modly Concludes Mediterranean Region Trip of Strengthening Alliances to Include Stops in Egypt, Israel Undersecretary of the Navy Thomas Modly completed a four-country trip to the Mediterranean region July 15-24...