JULY 26, 2024 - Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby visited Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, July 24. The visit highlighted the Laboratory’s work with the Navy including studying real-world lessons learned in Integrated Air and Missile Defense, software development, rapid fleet experimentation and cyber resilience. The Laboratory was founded in 1942 as … [Read more...]
AUKUS Chiefs Visit HMAS Stirling Base
JULY 24, 2024 - The Chiefs of Navy for Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have strengthened their naval ties today, during a visit to HMAS Stirling in Western Australia. Australia’s Chief of Navy, Vice Adm. Mark Hammond AO, RAN, hosted his international counterparts, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, and the U.K. First Sea Lord and … [Read more...]
Navy Demonstrates How it Rearms Warships at Sea
JULY 24, 2024 - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) successfully conducted the first land-based demonstration of the Transferrable Rearming Mechanism (TRAM), which will enable U.S. Navy surface combatants to reload missile canisters into their MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS) at sea. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has made TRAM one of … [Read more...]
Navy Announces Michigan Maritime Manufacturing Initiative
JULY 23, 2024 – Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the Michigan Maritime Manufacturing Initiative (M3), a federal, state and local partnership to help rebuild the maritime industrial base workforce the Navy needs, July 22. M3 will focus initially on submarine production skillsets before it expands to other types of ships. Secretary Del Toro announced M3 at … [Read more...]
Marines and Sailors Support Aid Efforts in Chuuk
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 13, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, provide humanitarian disaster relief preparation by offloading approximately one thousand bags of rice and three thousand cases of water to Federal States of Micronesia outer island of Chuuk during exercise Koa Moana 24 in the Chuuk Lagoon, July 5-9, 2024. … [Read more...]