ARLINGTON, Va. — The Defense Department successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range at Kauai, Hawaii, on March 19, the Pentagon said in a release. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB),…
Navy’s Top Doctor: No Active COVID-19 Transmissions Aboard Ships Yet
ARLINGTON, Va — The U.S. Navy’s top medical officer said that no COVID-19 cases have been detected on board Navy ships at sea. “Because of those enhanced measures that were undertaken weeks ago, we have not seen active transmission,” Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, surgeon…
Coast Guard Cutter Diligence Completes Last Patrol Before Homeport Change
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Diligence and crew returned to Wilmington on March 13 following a 39-day patrol in the North Atlantic that included living marine resources enforcement and a three-week training and evaluation period, the Coast Guard 5th District said in…
112 Congressmen Call for Second Virginia-Class Sub in 2021
WASHINGTON — The congressional push for reinstatement of a second Virginia-class submarine in the 2021 defense budget has attracted the support of 112 congressmen. A letter from three congressmen on the Seapower subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee — sent to the House Appropriations Committee…
Esper Orders Navy to Ready Hospital Ships to Take Pressure Off U.S. Hospitals
ARLINGTON, Va. — The secretary of defense said March 18 that he has ordered the U.S. Navy to prepare its two hospital ships for activation to take pressure off the nation’s hospitals battling the COVID-19 virus pandemic. At a Pentagon news conference, Secretary Mark T. Esper referred…
NOAA: New Progress on Mapping U.S. Ocean, Coastal, Great Lakes Waters
SILVER SPRING, Md. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first annual report on the progress made in mapping U.S. ocean, coastal and Great Lakes waters, the agency said in a release. Knowledge of the depth, shape…
Coast Guard Cutter Alert Returns After Counter-Drug Patrol, International Exercise
ASTORIA, Ore. — The Coast Guard Cutter Alert returned home to Astoria on March 15 following a 69-day eastern Pacific Ocean counter-drug deployment, the Coast Guard Pacific Area said in a release. The crew patrolled international waters off the coast…
USS Delbert D. Black Completes Acceptance Trials
Pascagoula, Miss. — The future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 19) completed acceptance trials on March 12, returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding Division after spending two days at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. During acceptance trials, the ship’s…
Simple Unmanned Systems Could Impose ISR Tax on Adversaries, Marine General Says
WASHINGTON — One of the ways to counter rivals in the Great Power Competition is to impose costs on a potential adversary. An effective way to do that is with a big, unmanned inflatable boat, according to a top Marine…
HELIOS Laser Weapon Takes Step Toward Ship Integration
MOORESTOWN, N.J. — Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy moved one step closer to integrating a laser weapon system onto an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer after successfully conducting a critical design review (CDR) for the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system, the company said in…
