Sporting spectacles such as the Pro Bowl and Boston Marathon draw big crowds. Now they are also drawing swarms of U.S. Navy recruiters. Recruiters have always gravitated to where the potential applicants may be, to talk about Navy opportunities. Navy…
Bainbridge Answers Distress Call
GULF OF OMAN (NNS) — The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) responded to a distress call from the M/V Kokuka Courageous in the Gulf of Oman the morning of June 13. The Bainbridge received a call from…
House Armed Services Chairman Downplays Party Differences Over 2020 Defense Spending
The House Armed Services Committee chairman downplayed the partisan differences over the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization but said the “biggest threat” to adequate defense funding was the failure to reach agreement on lifting punishing spending caps. Although the chairman’s…
Coast Guard Cutter Resolute Returns Home From 60-Day Deployment
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Resolute (WMEC-620) returned home on May 19 following a 60-day patrol in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the Coast Guard 7th District said in a release. Upon getting underway, Resolute patrolled…
Boeing Garners Second U.S. Navy Contract for F/A-18 Service Life Modification
ST. LOUIS — Boeing has received a one-year contract to continue modernizing the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 fleet under the Service Life Modification (SLM) program, the company said in a May 17 release. The $164 million contract for fiscal 2019, which…
Naval Research Lab Debuts Newly Acquired Aircraft for Airborne Research
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Navy’s premier science and technology research squadron, Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), unveiled on May 11 the UV-18 “Twin Otter” as the newest addition to the squadron’s fleet of aircraft…
Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic Finds Several Benefactors for C4ISR Help
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As head of expeditionary warfare at the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic, Kevin Charlow constantly is on the lookout for ways to share good results with as many potential users as possible. “We’re focused on trying…
Services Continue to Examine Challenges, Obstacles of Operating in Arctic
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Arctic continues to present operational and logistical challenges for the agencies that operate there, but studies are providing a clearer picture of how they should be adjusting to climate change, service leaders said during a…
HII Delivers Eighth National Security Cutter Midgett to U.S. Coast Guard
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division delivered the National Security Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) to the U.S. Coast Guard on May 1, the company said in a release. Midgett is scheduled to sail away in June and will…
HII Wins LCS Planning Yard Contract Worth a Possible $931.7 Million
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi — Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded a cost-plus-award-fee contract with a potential total value of $931.7 million for planning yard services in support of in-service littoral combat ships (LCS), the company said in a…