When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, cheers and applause filled mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In the crowd celebrating was Matt Wallace, who as a young naval submarine officer plied the…
Marines Evaluate New Unmanned Maritime Technologies at BALTOPS
Sailors and Marines worked together with unmanned technologies, never used before to conduct expeditionary mine countermeasures operations, during the recent Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2021 exercise in Germany. Tony Brescia, a systems engineer with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division…
Advising for Growth: Coast Guard’s 5th District Monitors Massive Mid-Atlantic Maritime Expansion
The Port of Virginia is something of a little-understood region on the nation’s vast maritime map, and yet is one of the busiest, most strategically important ports in the nation. Located at Hampton Roads, it ranks seventh among North America’s…
Coast Guard, Partner Agencies Continue to Support Haiti Relief Efforts
MIAMI — Coast Guard and partner agency aircrews continue to respond to critically injured Haitian citizens by transporting them to a higher level of care in Port au Prince, Haiti, the Coast Guard 7th District said in an Aug. 19…
Standard Replenishment: Navies Help Each Other at ‘Speed of Combat’
Navies that operate frigate-sized ships and larger will generally need to provide for a replenishment-at-sea capability, but many of those navies do not have large replenishment ships that can operate on extended missions to sustain their ships while deployed, or…
Q&A: Charles “C.J.” Johnson-Bey and Jandria Alexander, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Charles “C.J.” Johnson-Bey is a leader in electromagnetic technology solutions for Booz Allen Hamilton’s commercial and defense clients. Based out of the company’s Belcamp, Maryland, office, he develops and executes innovative technology strategies that reflect evolving markets and technology…
Q&A: Heather H. Quilenderino, Director, U.S. National Ice Center and Commander, U.S. Naval Ice Center
Cmdr. Heather H. Quilenderino is the director, U.S. National Ice Center, and commander, U.S. Naval Ice Center. She qualified as a surface warfare officer on a guided-missile cruiser before laterally transferring to the naval oceanography community. She graduated from the…
USMC Amphibious Capability Critical to Popping Area Denial ‘Bubbles’
Whether operating in the Euro-Atlantic or Indo-Pacific theaters, U.S. naval forces and their allies and partners must confront constrictions in operations — in both peacetime and crisis — generated by adversaries attempting to apply anti-access or area denial strategies, known…
U.S. Navy Research Pilots Help Scientists Gather Data from the Air
U.S. Navy pilots and naval flight officers flying specialized aircraft are helping scientists collect data for airborne research. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Scientific Development Squadron One (VXS-1), based in Maryland at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, operates worldwide…
Triton Deployed: The Navy’s MQ-4C’s Western Pacific Overwatch Continues Into Second Year
The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle has been deployed for more than a year to the Western Pacific and by all accounts is impressing the fleet with its capabilities and is in high demand by…
