Release from Leidos ***** Leidos demonstrated the Marine Expeditionary Long-Range Persistent Surveillance (MELPS) prototype at last year’s Project Convergence 2022 in the San Diego area. Photo: Leidos Huntsville, Ala. (Nov. 27, 2023) – Leidos, a Fortune 500 science and technology company, announced…
Senate Confirms Navy’s New Acquisition Boss
***** The U.S. Senate has confirmed the Department of the Navy’s acquisition boss. Nickolas H. Guertin, the Defense Department’s director of Operational Trest and Evaluation, has cleared the hurdles to become the new assistant secretary of the Navy for Research,…
Navy Announces Flag Officer Assignments
***** ARLINGTON, Va. — The secretary of the Navy and chief of naval operations announced on Dec. 18, 2023, the following assignments: Rear Adm. (lower half) Amy N. Bauernschmidt is assigned as deputy commander, Seventh Fleet, Yokosuka, Japan. Rear Adm….
Bollinger Shipyards Delivers First Bollinger-Built Berthing and Messing Barge to U.S. Navy
Release from Bollinger Shipyards ***** PASCAGOULA, Miss., — (December 18, 2023) – Last week, Bollinger Shipyards (“Bollinger”) delivered the first Bollinger-built Auxiliary Personnel Lighter–Small (APL(S)) Class berthing and messing barge (APL 71) to the U.S. Navy. APL 71 is the 5th…
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Seizes Illegal Narcotics in Gulf of Oman
Release from U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs ***** By U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs | December 15, 2023 MANAMA, Bahrain — A U.S. Coast Guard ship seized illegal drugs worth over $6 million from a fishing vessel…
Keel Authenticated for Future USS George M. Neal
Release from Naval Sea Systems Command ***** Dec. 15, 2023 By Team Ships Public Affairs The keel for the future USS George M. Neal (DDG 131), a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was ceremonially laid at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division,…
The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System in Naval Support Facility Redizkowo, Poland, Transfers Ownership from Missile Defense Agency to the U.S. Navy
Release from U.S. Naval Forces Europe/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs ***** Dec. 15, 2023 By U.S. Naval Forces Europe/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs NAPLES, Italy – The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System (AAMDS) located in Redzikowo, Poland, will be accepted by the…
SECDEF Announces Nominations for Marine Corps Reserve Generals
***** ARLINGTON, Va. — Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced Dec. 15, 2023, that the president has made the following nominations: Marine Corps Reserve Brig. Gen. Douglas K. Clark for appointment to the grade of major general. Clark…
NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE ENHANCES ALLIED DEFENSE WITH ROMANIAN SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
Release from U.S. Fleet Forces Command ***** BY LT. J.G. MARTIN CAREY 13 December 2023 CONTANTA, Romania – East-Coast based Naval Special Warfare Operators (SEALs) and the 164th Romanian Naval Special Operations Forces (ROUSOF) conducted training on maritime interdiction operations,…
Coast Guard Cutter Diligence returns to Pensacola after interdicting $20.3 million in illicit drugs, six smugglers
Release from U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area ***** Dec. 14, 2023 PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence (WMEC 616) returned to homeport in Pensacola on Thursday after a 52-day counterdrug patrol in the Caribbean Sea. During…
