Cruisers and destroyers responsible for protecting the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) honed their sharpshooting skills in multiple live-fire exercises, testing both sailors and equipment. The drill took place November 1, shortly after USS Harry S. Truman and surface ships from
The US Fleet Command/US Tenth Fleet announced Thursday that all US Navy cyber mission force teams achieved full operational capability (FOC). The 40 teams were qualified by US Cyber Command October 6, meaning they reached full operational capability almost a year ahead of schedule. The focus of US C
US Navy personnel from the Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) Detachment Rota, Spain, completed a 60-day surface incremental availability (SIA) on destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), Oct. 27. “This was the second SIA conducted in Rota, Spain and continues the record of on-time availabil
Aerospace and defense company L3 Technologies announced it has joined Boeing’s team to design next-generation communications, mission planning, autonomy, navigation, cybersecurity and anti-tamper capabilities for the US Navy’s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUV). L3 said it is integrating t
The US Navy is set to christen its 68th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Delbert D. Black, in a ceremony on Saturday in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ceremony will take place at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipyard which launched the ship on September 8, 2017. The ship is configured a
The US Coast Guard commissioned its 24th fast response cutter (FRC), Oliver Berry, in a ceremony in Honolulu on October 31. The cutter is the first FRC stationed in Hawaii and in the Coast Guard’s Fourteenth District, which covers more than 12 million square miles of land and sea in the Western and
US Navy secretary Richard V. Spencer announced the Navy’s fifth Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship, T-ESB 5, will be named in honor of Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Miguel Keith. The official naming ceremony is to take place in National Harbor, Maryland, on November 4. Kei
The US Navy is set to profit from new electromagnetic maneuver warfare (EMW) capabilities which are emerging from laboratories to make an operational impact in the fleet, US Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) leaders announced on November 1. The announcement is the result of US
The two separate collisions between US Navy destroyers and commercial vessels in the Pacific in which a total of seventeen US Navy sailors lost their lives were preventable, a report released by the navy on November 1 says. The report details the events and actions that led to the collision of USS F
A joint working group set up between the US and India met to help India in the development of its indigenous aircraft carrier met at Naval Air Station INS Hansa in Goa for the fourth time. Fourteen US delegates, led by Rear Admiral Brian Antonio, Program Executive Officer, Aircraft Carriers and seve
Ships, aircraft and personnel from a number of countries came together on October 25 to simulate a D-Day live amphibious assault on the shoreline of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during exercise Bold Alligator 2017 (BA17). Bold Alligator is an annual exercise established in 2011 featuring U.S. Navy
The US Navy has established a new detachment which will help keep track of unit readiness in the US 7th Fleet. Detachment (Det) Naval Surface Group Western Pacific (NSGWP), set up by US Pacific Fleet (CPF) Commander Adm. Scott Swift on October 31, will oversee the training and certification of forwa
US defense secretary James Mattis has nominated a former carrier strike group commander to lead US Navy forces in Europe and Africa. Rear Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti was also nominated for appointment to the rank of vice admiral. Should the nomination be confirmed, Franchetti will also be leading Task F
For the first time in its 31 years of service with the US Navy, aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) pulled into Guam for a scheduled port visit on October 31. Theodore Roosevelt, flagship of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG), arrived in Guam after entering the 7th Flee
