Panel: COVID-19 Pandemic Could Prompt Changes to National Security Spending
The Pentagon’s budget will fall in the future as Congress sees how little the Department of Defense’s spending was able…
BALTOPS 2020 Will Only Hold At-Sea Events With Ships Commanded from Shore
The Navy and its NATO allies and partners are underway for the 49th iteration of the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise…
Navy Calling Up 1,600 Reservists to Fill in For Shipyard Workers Out for COVID-19
The Navy is activating 1,629 reservists to help reduce a carrier and submarine maintenance backlog at its public shipyards that…
COVID-19 Mitigation Will Likely Cost Defense Industry $1 Billion
The sweeping COVID-19 stimulus package passed in March does not cover more than $1 billion in COVID-19-related costs run up…
USS Kidd Heading Back to SOUTHCOM for Interdiction Mission After COVID-19 Outbreak
The guided-missile destroyer that suffered an outbreak of COVID-19 in April is back to sea, Navy officials told USNI News…
Navy Higher Education Developing COVID-19 Mitigation Plans For Fall
The Navy’s higher education programs are still developing COVID-19 mitigation strategies for fall classes – a little more than a…
CDC, Navy COVID-19 Study on TR Finds 1 in 5 Asymptomatic; Loss of Taste, Smell Most Common Symptom
A new U.S. study of the COVID-19 outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) found that one in five sailors infected…
COVID-19 Pandemic Changing How NATO Thinks of Global Security
The global pandemic is prompting NATO to look beyond China and Russia in how it can protect its 30 members…
Navy Continues 2 Weeks Off-Base Isolation for All New Recruits
The Navy is extending indefinitely its practice of isolating all 750 recruits arriving weekly for boot camp at Naval Station…
2 Truman Carrier Escorts Return Today After 267 Days Deployed, Carrier Air Wing 1 Heading to Shore
Ships and aircraft assigned to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group will begin their return today after some sailors…