Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis spoke June 5 with 7th and 8th grade students about military career options during Mountain View Middle School’s 2013 Future Fair. The fair was a chance for Sailors to talk to students about military service and the many option
Commander, Naval Submarine Forces in Norfolk, U.S. established a flag officer-led task force in May to focus on effectively integrating enlisted women Sailors on board multiple submarine platforms. Vice Adm. Michael Connor stood up the task force to specifically look at best integration practices fo
USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) conducted the first aircraft carrier-borne end-to-end at-sea test of the Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) System, the Navy announced, June 6. The SSTD System combines the passive detection capability of the Torpedo Warning System that not only finds torpedoes, but a
The Navy accepted delivery of the second Joint High Speed Vessel, USNS Choctaw County (JHSV 2), from Austal USA, June 6 in Mobile, Ala. JHSV 2 successfully completed acceptance trials in May, when the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey evaluated performance of the ship’s major systems and equipme
Portsmouth based Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster has arrived in Bermuda – her first stop on a six month deployment to the North Atlantic and Caribbean. Upon arrival she joined RFA Wave Knight as part of the Atlantic Patrol Taskforce (North) which provides Humanitarian aid and Disaster relief support t
Lockheed Martin was chosen along with 14 other companies to provide a variety of operational support services for the U.S. Navy under the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic’s Business and Force Support Multiple Award Pillar contract. The award has a potential cumulative value (if
More than 100 Sailors from the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) attended a special ribbon-cutting ceremony, May 15, to officially establish the crew of the first Ford class aircraft carrier and open the building where they will work while the ship is constructed. “The Shipyard and the crew decided to hav
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced yesterday the next three joint high speed vessels (JHSV) will be named USNS Yuma, USNS Bismarck and USNS Burlington, and two littoral combat ships (LCS) will be named USS Billings and USS Tulsa. “It is my privilege as Secretary of the Navy to name these ship
Fourteen Indian sailors are now safe, after pirates, who took control of their cargo vessel yesterday morning (5 June 2013) in the Gulf of Aden, abandoned the attack hours later after EU Naval Force warship HSwMS Carlskrona, together with NATO counter piracy Dutch warship HNLMS Van Speijk, closed in
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division delivered the submarine Minnesota (SSN 783) to the U.S. Navy yesterday. The boat, the last of the Block II Virginia-class submarines, delivered nearly 11 months ahead of schedule. [mappress] Press Rel
USNS Millinocket (JHSV 3) successfully launched on June 5, from the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Ala. The third joint high speed vessel is a versatile, non-combatant, transport ship that will be used for fast intra-theater transportation of troops, military vehicles and equipment. “This launch is
Singapore has successfully completed its third command of the multinational Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, as part of the international counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden (GoA). Rear-Admiral (RADM) Giam Hock Koon from the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) handed over command of Combined Task
Russian Navy is going to deploy about 10 warships to the Mediterranean Sea, reports Xinhua news citing Russian Defense Ministry. The task force which will feature anti-submarine ships, landing ships, auxiliary vessels, patrol boats and cruisers, will focus primarily on keeping a close watch on the s
HMS Edinburgh, known as the ‘Fortress of the Sea’, has been decommissioned today at Portsmouth Naval Base bringing to an end the era of the Type 42 destroyers, according to Portsmouth.co.uk. The ship was the nation’s last serving Type 42 destroyer, a veteran of the destroyer fleet known as the workh
