Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite named the next Virginia-class attack boat after the famed World War II-era submarine USS Barb (SS-220) and a new destroyer after former Navy Secretary John Lehman in a Tuesday ceremony. Braithwaite announced the two new ship names during an event unveiling plans to construct a new Navy museum in ...
The board of directors of the Kosciusko Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO) on Tuesday announced implementation of a continuity of operations plan while CE
The US Navy has awarded a $327.8m contract to General Dynamics (GD) Electric Boat for Virginia-class submarine design work and fleet maintenance. As per the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the company will carry out the lead yard support and development studies. It will also perform other works related to the design improvements of the Virginia-class submarine.
A rendering of the new National Museum of the U.S. Navy. The nation's capital could soon welcome another major new museum in the area around the Washington Navy Yard. The Navy announced Tuesday it plans to build a new National Museum of the U.S. Navy, and it aims to break ground in 2023.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) - October 13th is the birthday of the United States Navy. Jennifer Givens with the nonprofit Foundation for Women Warriors joined Good Morning San Diego to share some great insights on the significance of the Navy's birthday, along with sharing what inspired her to service in the Navy and how the San Diego community can continue to...
Naval News October 2020 Navy Forces Maritime Defense Industry According to information published by the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa / U.S. 6Th Fleet, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) conducted combined operations with French Navy La Fayette-class frigate FS La Fayette (F 710) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, on October this year.
The Navy has plans to build a new museum to replace the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Southeast D.C., which is now closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. While a specific location is not yet finalized, the Navy said "the ideal site for the new museum is in the vicinity of the historic Washington Navy Yard."
Naval News October 2020 Navy Forces Maritime Defense Industry According to a press release published on October 12, 2020, The future USS Mobile (LCS 26) Independence-class littoral combat ship successfully completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico on September 25, 2020. LCS 26 is the third Austal-built ship for the U.S.
The U.S Navy has announced on Monday that Mark VI patrol boats assigned to Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 3 boarded are conducting integrated littoral maritime security operations from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) with the Marines and Sailors already deployed as Task Force Ellis from I Marine Expeditionary Force in the Philippine Sea.
Navy sailors and maintainers will soon be utilizing state-of-the-art 3D interactive instructions accessible on the BILT mobile app. The Software as a Service (SaaS) company has been awarded a SBIR Phase III contract. The goal of the SBIR program is to stimulate tech innovation and foster small business...
Monday October 12 th 2020 will mark 20 years since the terrorist attack on the Navy destroyer USS Cole. San Diego native, Lakiba Nicole Palmer, was one of 17 sailors killed that day.
Happy 245th birthday to the United States Navy!!! On 13 October, 1775 a resolution of the Continental Congress established the United States Navy with "a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months...."
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) - The U.S. Naval Academy sailing team got quite the surprise Friday afternoon! Singer Jimmy Buffett stopped by the team's practice for an impromptu mini-concert! Navy Sailing posted on Facebook Friday: "Fins to the left, fins to the right! Guess who popped in for practice this week!?
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Sophomore linebacker Terrell Adams, making his first career start, broke up a two-point conversion attempt from Temple quarterback Anthony Russo with 1:03 left in the game to give Navy (2-2, 2-0) a 31-29 victory over Temple (0-1, 0-1) on Saturday night in front of 4,400 members of the Brigade of Midshipmen at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
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Residents received little information about the source of the health scare that halted activities at the outpost in Cuba. This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
BEIJING (AP) - China said it dispatched ships and planes to track the U.S. guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain as it passed near Chinese-held islands in the South China Sea. The People's Liberation Army accused the U.S.
More than 190 U.S. Navy ships have suffered a COVID-19 outbreak this year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said in a message to the fleet late last month. If that tally is limited to the sea service's 296 deployable ships, it would mean nearly 65 percent of the fleet has experienced some level of infection by the novel coronavirus.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy awarded a contract potentially worth $69.8 million over five years for engineering services for its tactical network. In an Oct.
Written by Marine Log Staff 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 October 7 while aboard the museum ship Constellation in Baltimore Inner Harbor.