Commander Submarines, Allied Naval Forces South, met with the commander of the French navy’s submarine forces April 21, on board Naval Support Activity, Naples. The meeting between Rear Adm. James G. Foggo III and French navy Vice Adm. Georges-Henri Mouton was part of a two-day visit to strengthen t
At least five persons were killed and eight others wounded after foreign warship attacked boats in Hobyo district on Wednesday night, Local… By Abdalle Ahmed (raxanreeb) [mappress] Source: raxanreeb, April 22, 2011;
Stockholm – A more than 300-year-old Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage could well have faded into the mists of history but for… By Lennart Simonsson (monstersandcritics) [mappress] Source: monstersandcritics, April 22, 2011;
During her port visit to Mombasa on the 11th April, EU NAVFOR warship FS GUEPRATTE welcomed a Kenyan delegation on board. This visit was organized by the UN Office for Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) who are deeply involved in the pirates transfer agreement process with East Africa, Seychelles and now Maur
U.S. Navy investigators are continuing to re-examine the work done by contractors on the amphibious ship San Antonio (LPD 17) in hopes the… By Christopher P (klipinghankam) [mappress] Source: klipinghankam, April 22, 2011;
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead visited Russia to meet with members of the Russian Navy and further improve international maritime relationships, April 13-18. As the first CNO to visit Russia since 1996, Roughead met with his counterpart, Adm. Vladimir Vysotskiy, commander-in-chie
Maybe it’s time for another historic museum warship to take up a berth on the South Carolina coast — this one from the Spanish-American War… By Schuyler Kropf (thestate) [mappress] Source: thestate, April 21, 2011;
Booz Allen Hamilton announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) with cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration. The multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract in support of
Pirates seized an Italian-flagged vessel off the Horn of Africa on Thursday morning, the European Union’s anti-piracy taskforce said… (cnn) [mappress] Source: cnn , April 21, 2011;
A major maritime exercise recently ended with a bang, when minehunter vessels participating in Exercise Joint Warrior 2011, hosted by the Royal Navy off the northwest coast of Scotland, encountered two pieces of Second World War ordnance. The Mine Counter-Measures (MCM) force, consisting of minehunt
Pentagon prosecutors Wednesday pressed the first Obama-era war crimes charges against a Guantánamo captive, seeking the death penalty in the… By Carol Rosenberg (miamiherald) [mappress] Source: miamiherald, April 21, 2011;
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Navy have completed a compliance agreement that sets out a schedule of upgrades the Na… (wateronline) [mappress] Source: wateronline, April 21, 2011;
Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Inc., Herndon, Va., is being awarded a $55,704,295 modification to a previously awarded contract (N63394-10-C-5006) for operation and maintenance services for the combined tactical training ranges. Services will be required at shore sites, land-based test facilit
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington returned to its forward-deployed port of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday, nearly a mo… By Kyodo (japantimes) [mappress] Source: japantimes, April 21, 2011;
