29 October 2019 PCU John F. Kennedy Crew Marks another Milestone, Flooding of Dry Dock Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) marked another milestone leading up to the christening of the second Ford-class aircraft carrier as Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) flooded the ship's dry dock Oct. 29...
25 October 2019 CNAL Discusses Next-Generation Leadership at Course for Midlevel Officers Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic (CNAL) spoke with naval officers attending the Naval Leadership and Ethics Center (NLEC) Intermediate Leadership Course (ILC) in Dam Neck, Oct. 25...
25 October 2019 USS Gerald R. Ford Returns to Sea USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) got underway today for sea trials from Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding division following a 15-month pierside maintenance period...
23 October 2019 NAVWAR Completes First Digital Model of Systems on USS Abraham Lincoln NAVWAR accomplished a significant milestone in the digital engineering transformation with completion of its first digital twin, a system-of-systems digital model, representing a set of information warfare capabilities that will be installed on USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in fiscal year 2020...
09 October 2019 USS Wasp Enters 4th Fleet The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) arrived in U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations Oct 1. The Wasp is transiting around South America while conducting a homeport shift from Japan to Norfolk...
02 October 2019 Future Carrier John F. Kennedy Establishes Crew Forty-three Sailors assigned to the Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) attended a special ribbon-cutting ceremony in Newport News on Oct. 1, establishing the ship's crew and opening the building where they will work during the ship's construction...
01 October 2019 LCS Successfully Launches Naval Strike Missile The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) Oct. 1 (local date) during Pacific Griffin...
25 September 2019 James E. Williams Pins Seven Chiefs Seven Sailors celebrated their entry into the chief’s mess as they donned their anchors as the newest chief petty officers aboard the Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG 95), Sept. 14...
24 September 2019 Naval Aviation Achieves SECDEF Readiness Target, Shifts Focus to Readiness Sustainment CNAF announced Sept. 24 that Naval Aviation achieved its Secretary of Defense-mandated readiness target of an 80 percent mission-capable (MC) rate for both its operational F/A-18 E/F "Super Hornet" and EA-18G "Growler" fleets...
19 September 2019 Unmanned Refueling Aircraft Passes First Test Flight The Navy and Boeing successfully completed the first test flight of the MQ-25, the first operational carrier-based unmanned refueling aircraft, Sept. 19 from MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois...