22 August 2017 Navy Acquisition Excellence Award winners include NAVSUP personnel Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) personnel were named winners in the 2017 Department of the Navy Acquisition Excellence Awards...
22 August 2017 Future USS Portland Successfully Completes Acceptance Trials Future USS Portland (LPD 27) successfully completed Acceptance Trials on Aug. 18, sailing from and returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries' shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi...
22 August 2017 Hue City Returns Home From Deployment Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Hue City (CG 66), part of the George H.W. Bush Strike Group (GHWBCSG), returned to homeport here Aug. 21 after a seven-month deployment to the U.S. Navy's 5th and 6th Fleet area of operations...
11 August 2017 John C. Stennis Underway for Sea Trials Ahead of Schedule Sailors aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) got underway for Sea Trials as the ship's planned incremental availability (PIA) nears its end, August 11...
10 August 2017 GW Transits to NNS to begin RCOH Aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) made a 1 1/2-hour transit across the James River on her way to Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) to begin an approximate four-year refueling complex overhaul maintenance period, Aug. 4...
07 August 2017 Cubano Assumes Command of NHCCC Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi (NHCCC) conducted a change of command ceremony on July 31. Capt. Miguel A. Cubano relieved Capt. Guido F. Valdes at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi Catalina Club...
07 August 2017 Naval Aviation Hits Historic Milestone The Navy completed the debrief for the 100,000th sortie using the Tactical Combat Training System on Aug. 2 at Naval Air Station Key West, marking the most sorties flown on naval ranges using the system...
03 August 2017 Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command Holds Change of Command Celebration Capt. Julia L. Slattery relieved Capt. Sean R. Heritage as Commander, Task Force 1020/Commanding Officer, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) during a change of command ceremony held at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts on Aug. 2...
29 July 2017 USS Gerald R. Ford Completes First Arrested Landing and Launch Less than one week after Pres. Donald J. Trump commissioned the U.S. Navy's newest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) launched and recovered its first fixed-wing aircraft July 28, 2017, off the coast of Virginia...
28 July 2017 USMAP Hits Milestone of 100,000 Active Apprenticeships After more than 40 years providing sea-service military members with journeyman-level certifications documenting their skills through the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the United Services Military Apprenticeship Program (USMAP) announced a milestone of 100,000 active participants, July 28...