The Navy celebrated the keel-laying of Pre-Commissioning Unit North Dakota (SSN 784) at General Dynamics Electric Boat-Quonset Point division in North Kingstown, May 11.In a time-honored Navy tradition, ship's sponsor Katie Fowler, wife of retired Vic...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Sailors aboard USS Lake Erie (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system May 9.This test resulted in the first intercept of a short-range ballistic mis...
Twenty-two nations, 42 ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled June 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands.
The world's largest intern...
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced May 4 the selection of USS Tripoli as the name for the Navy's next large-deck amphibious assault ship (LHA 7).The USS Tripoli will be the third ship to bear the name Tripoli. The name commemorates the capture o...
Sanmina-SCI Corporation (SANM), a leading manufacturing and engineering solutions company making some of the world's most complex and valuable optical, RF, electronic and mechanical products, and Thales, a major manufacturer and supplier of safety and mi...
With the crack of a champagne bottle and the traditional
words, "I christen you.," Military Sealift Command ship USNS Cesar
Chavez (T-AKE 14) was christened May 5 during an evening ceremony at the
General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.
The...
The future USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) successfully completed acceptance trials May 4, testing the ship's major systems and equipment in port and underway in Lake Michigan. Acceptance trials are the last significant milestone before delivery of the shi...
The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) were relieved of their duties in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) by the Iwo Jima ARG and the 24th MEU, May 5.The Makin Island ARG deployed Nov. 14,...
Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and Carrier Air
Wing (CVW) 1 began flying combat missions in support of Operation Enduring
Freedom (OEF), May 1.
Through these missions, the Navy and Marine Corps
squadrons aboard Enterprise are providing direc...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a three-year, $84 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to support the Naval Education Training Command (NETC).
"The Navy continues to do exciting things in the training arena, a...
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