Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23, from Naval Air Station North Island, embarked aboard amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) as a search and rescue (SAR) detachment in February 2012 and is currently deployed with the ship. The detachment provides day and night helicopter amphibious sear
The Royal Navy’s most senior Officer has shared his thoughts on leadership with the next generation of naval leaders during a visit to Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) in Dartmouth. Meeting a group of Officer Cadets undergoing their initial naval training, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope led a discuss
In the middle of her counter-piracy and counter-drugs work, the Devonport-based frigate HMS Northumberland’s Merlin helicopter tested one of the many tricks in her box – her flares. These are installed to decoy incoming heat-seeking missiles – fired either by other aircraft, or ground-based threats
Several guests from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth visited the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Jan 15. Royal Navy Cmdr. Gordon Ruddock, Monmouth’s commanding officer, and 15 Monmouth sailors met with Rear Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 3,
Leading defence prime contractor Austal, and leading repair, conversion and maintenance shipyard Sembawang Shipyard Pte. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, Singapore), have entered into a strategic partnership to provide market-leading sustainment capability to the US Navy. Austal and Sembawang
Sailors assigned to the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) concluded a week-long series of community service (COMSERV) projects, Jan. 16. While in port to support their primary mission of submarine repair, Sailors spent a great deal of their spare time reaching out to local communities by prov
The U.S. Navy awarded CSC and six other companies an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide acquisition and support services to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic. Awarded in the third quarter of CSC’s fiscal year 2013, the contract has a one-year b
Two weeks into a 12 month deployment, ESPS Cantabria and her embarked 12 person RAN DET have been busy navigating their way through the Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal and Red Sea en route to Australia. The principle objectives of Cantabria’s year long deployment to Australia is to provide afloat supp
Raytheon Company has delivered more than six million lines of software to the U.S. Navy for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer program. Part of the Total Ship Computing Environment (TSCE) — the integrated mission system for the DDG 1000 class — the software delivery supports ship activation and co
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) will on Saturday, Jan. 26th, lift and place the 555-metric ton island onto the flight deck of Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the first of the next-generation class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The ship’s sponsor and President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford’s daughter, Sus
Inter-Fleet Exercises of Russian Navy started on January 19 under the supervision of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff in the Black and the Mediterranean Seas’ water areas… [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, January 21, 2013; Image: Flot
The Navy has rescheduled the Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) Reserve and Full Time Support Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Selection Board, according to a Navy message released Jan. 16. The board, originally scheduled to convene here in May, has been rescheduled to convene here July 22, according to NAVADMIN 006/
The Coast Guard has combined efforts with local, state and federal agencies to provide security in the Washington area in support of the 57th Presidential Inauguration. Agencies are conducting security patrols along the Potomac River, and air assets will enforce security zones within the National Ca
Four men were rescued Sunday west of Guadeloupe Island after being lost at sea for six days. The fishing vessel departed South Leeward Coast of St. Vincent Island Jan. 12 enroute to Antigua and was later reported disabled and adrift by the brother of a crewmember aboard Jan. 14. French, Barbadian an
