ALAMEDA, Calif. — The crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) returned July 2 to their homeport of Alameda following a 164-day deployment to the western Pacific, the Coast Guard Pacific Area said in a release. The…
NAVWAR Provides Technical Expertise for Underwater Ice Study in Sweden
SAN DIEGO — Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) joined the Swedish Defense Research Agency and the Swedish Coast Guard in Lulea, Sweden, to test how ice effects sound in the underwater domain March 11-23. As part of an ongoing…
Navy Full Court Press on USS Gerald R. Ford Weapons Elevators
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is leveraging the talent of an independent team of government and outside experts to assist in advanced electromagnetic, production and software technology aboard USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), said Research, Development and Acquisition Public…
Shipbuilding Apprentice School Celebrates 100 Years
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Apprentice School at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division celebrated its 100-year anniversary on Monday. The company held a ceremony to mark the day, July 1, 1919, when the school was established. During the…
NAVAIR Orders 80 Blackjack, 93 ScanEagle UAVs
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy has awarded a contract for Blackjack and ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles for the Navy and Marine Corps and several foreign nations. Insitu Inc. of Bingen, Washington, was awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command a…
U.S. 4th Fleet and Partner Nations Will Unite for Exercise Unitas
MAYPORT, Fla. — Chile will host maritime forces from 12 countries to participate in exercise Unitas LX (60) Pacific from June 24-July 3, the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command-U.S. 4th Fleet said in a July 1 release. Joining the U.S….
Littoral Combat Ship Deploys to WestPac, Ending 18-Month Gap
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy has deployed a littoral combat ship to the Western Pacific for the first time in 18 months, the first of three LCSs the service plans to deploy this year. The first LCS deployment this year…
Coast Guard Repatriates 44 Migrants to the Dominican Republic
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Donald Horsley (WPC-1117) repatriated 44 Dominican migrants and transferred them to Dominican naval authorities June 28 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, following the interdiction of two illegal migrant…
LCS Oakland Christened at Austal’s Mobile Shipyard
ARLINGTON, Va., and MOBILE, Ala.— The U.S. Navy christened its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Oakland (LCS 24), during a June 29 ceremony in Mobile, Alabama, the ship’s builder, Austal USA, said in a release of…
Coast Guard Cutter Venturous Returns Home After 62-Day Patrol
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC-625) returned home to St. Petersburg June 27 following a 62-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea, the Coast Guard 7th District said in a release of the same…
