14 December 2017 NSWC Philadelphia's 3D Virtual Dry Dock Paves Way for CVN-78 Class Carriers Engineers from the Advanced Data, Prototyping Technologies, and Virtual Environments (ADAPT.VE) Lab at Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) recently completed a project creating 3-Dimensional (3D) point cloud representations of Dry Dock 8 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY)...
14 December 2017 Navy Extends E-3 High Year Tenure As part of ongoing reviews of policies that impact Fleet readiness, the Navy announced it is increasing its high year tenure (HYT) policy for active component and Full Time Support (FTS) E-3 Sailors by one year in NAVADMIN 290/17, Dec. 14...
14 December 2017 USS Wasp Holds Change of Command The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) received a new commanding officer during a change of command ceremony Dec. 13...
14 December 2017 Lincoln Completes First F-35 Carrier Qualification The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) successfully completed Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) Carrier Qualifications for the F-35C Lightning II program, carrier qualifying the first nine fleet aviators in the new aircraft, while underway Dec. 7-11...
14 December 2017 Navy Releases Strategic Readiness Review In September, the Secretary of the Navy, Richard V. Spencer, ordered a fleet-wide Strategic Readiness Review (SRR) in light of the recent surface fleet incidents which resulted in significant loss of life and injury...
14 December 2017 Navy FFR Celebrates 20 Years of Star Service Excellence For some, being good enough is OK, but for Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) being the best-in-class in customer service is a priority...
14 December 2017 Navy to Commission Littoral Combat Ship Little Rock The Navy will commission its newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Little Rock (LCS 9), during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Canalside waterfront in Buffalo, New York...
14 December 2017 Innovation Boot Camp to Tackle Fleet Issues Applications are being accepted until Jan. 5, 2018, for a four-day innovation boot camp course designed to improve efforts Navy-wide...
14 December 2017 NETC Names Junior, Senior Civilians of the Quarter The Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) named its top performing civilian employees for the third quarter Dec. 11...
14 December 2017 Commander, USFF visits Iwo Jima Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command Adm. Phil Davidson visited Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), Dec. 12, while underway in the Atlantic Ocean...