Navy Opens Up Combat Awards for Actions in Red Sea, Gulf of Aden
The Navy has designated the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as two new locations for combat awards, according to a service message released Wednesday.…
Amphibious Warship Richard M. McCool Jr. Wraps Acceptance Trials
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding has finished acceptance trials for a new amphibious warship.…
Austal USA Delivers Second-to-Last Independence Littoral Combat Ship
The Navy’s penultimate aluminum Littoral Combat Ship was accepted into the service late last week, Naval Sea Systems announced.…
Marines Accelerating New Technology Fielding to the Fleet
SAN DIEGO – A small command at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California is hosting the Army’s Project Convergence…
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: March 4, 2024
These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world…
Republican Lawmakers Question CAPE on Amphibious Warship Buys
Two Republican lawmakers are probing the Pentagon about the use of multi-year purchase strategies for large amphibious ships.…
U.S. Navy Flag Officer Assignments
The following is a list of Navy flag assignments issued by the Department of Defense on March 1, 2024.…
Moon Bound Astronauts Join USS San Diego Crew, Navy Divers in Capsule Recovery Drills
When NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashes into the Pacific after its planned lunar mission next year, the first people the astronauts…
Pentagon Has No Plans to Send U.S. Navy Hospital Ship to Middle East
The Department of Defense does not have any plans to send a hospital ship to the Middle East despite a…
STRATCOM Promises Senate No Gap in Ballistic Missile Submarine Coverage
Strategic Command’s commander pledged to “ensure there is no gap” between the delivery of the Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines and the…
Report to Congress on Navy Distributed Maritime Operations Concept
The following is the Feb. 27, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Defense Primer: Navy Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) Concept.…