Jay Stefany to Lead Navy’s New Maritime Industrial Base Program Office
The Navy is standing up a new maritime industrial base program office and has tapped one of its career civil servants to take the helm.…
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: July 1, 2024
USNI News Graphic These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups…
Japan Will Deploy Mobile Radar Site in the Philippine Sea, U.S. Marines Test Attack Helicopter in Anti-Surface Role
The Japan Self Defense Force has stationed a mobile radar system on Kita Daito Island in the Philippine Sea to…
USNS Burlington Departing July 3 for Continuing Promise Mission in Caribbean
USNS Burlington (T-EPF-10) will deploy July 3 and head to the Caribbean and South America for the beginning of the Continuing…
U.S., Japan and Korea Begin Freedom Edge Exercise, North Korea Attempts Ballistic Missile Test
The U.S., Japan and South Korea kicked off the first trilateral Freedom Edge exercise on Thursday, according to a joint…
Former SECNAV Richard V. Spencer Named Next Austal Chairman
Australian shipbuilder Austal named former Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer as its next chairman, according to a late…
USS Wasp Now in the Mediterranean Sea
Big deck amphibious warship USS Wasp (LHD-1) passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on Wednesday and is now operating in…
Carrier USS Carl Vinson, International Warships Arrive in Hawaii for RIMPAC 2024
The United States Navy and 28 partner nations will begin the 29th biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024…
Navy, Marine Corps Agree on Readiness Standards for Amphibious Warships
The heads of the Navy and the Marine Corps settled on a standard to measure the readiness of the fleet…
USS Theodore Roosevelt to Depart Busan on Wednesday for Freedom Edge Exercise, Say Officials
The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (CSG) will depart Busan on Wednesday to take part in the inaugural U.S.-South Korea-Japan…
U.S. F-35s Join Philippine Marines in South China Sea Live-Fire Drill
Four U.S. Marine F-35B Lighting II dropped seven GBU-32 500-pound guided bombs on targets floating off the coast of Western…