Kathryn Bigelow's film 'Zero Dark Thirty' is nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.

Exclusive: USNI Interview with Kathryn Bigelow

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Kathryn Bigelow's film 'Zero Dark Thirty' is nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.

Kathryn Bigelow’s film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.

She’s the director of “Zero Dark Thirty”—the controversial motion picture detailing how U.S. Navy SEALs took down Osama bin Laden—which is up for several Academy Awards on Sunday, 24 February. Her film, “The Hurt Locker,” won her the 2009 Academy Award for Best Director and was voted the year’s Best Picture, along with receiving four other awards. At the height of Oscar Week, Proceedings Managing Editor Fred Schultz had the opportunity to pose a few questions to Kathryn Bigelow. Read More →

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert speaks to local media after an all hands call at the Naval Postgraduate School in February. US Navy Photo

Briefing: ‘Virtually All’ Navy Civilians Face Furlough

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Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert speaks to local media after an all hands call at the Naval Postgraduate School in February. US Navy Photo

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert speaks to local media after an all hands call at the Naval Postgraduate School in February. US Navy Photo

In the event of sequestration, U.S. Navy civilians could face a loss 22 days of their income for Fiscal Year 2013, according to briefing slides from the service.

“Virtually all,” Navy civilians face a furlough if the automatic budget cuts go into effect beginning in late April for “virtually all employees,” according to the slides. Read More →

A Project 775 ship. DoD Photo

Russian Ships To Syria Don’t Mean Much

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A Project 775 ship. DoD Photo

A Project 775 ship. DoD Photo

Early in the summer of 2012, a number of international observers got very worked up about Russia’s plan to dispatch half a dozen warships to the eastern Mediterranean. It sounded like some sort of escalation of an already awful situation, and even the most optimistic analyses noted that having a bunch of old, leaky Russian ships in an active war zone clearly was not ideal. Read More →

he aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) makes its approach pierside at Naval Station Norfolk after a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. US Navy Photo

Budget Woes Cause Ike to Deploy Early

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he aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) makes its approach pierside at Naval Station Norfolk after a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. US Navy Photo

he aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) makes its approach pierside at Naval Station Norfolk after a six-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. US Navy Photo

After only two months back at homeport, the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) will depart Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Thursday for another deployment to the Middle East, the Navy announced on Wednesday.

Following the cancelation of the deployment of USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75) due to the looming budget shortfalls from the combined budget specter of a Fiscal Year 2013 Continuing Resolution and sequestration. Read More →

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