JUNE 9, 2015, AUSTIN, Texas (NNS) - Navy recruiters, the color guard, Navy Special Operations teams, Navy STEM tour, the U.S. Navy Band, and a social media team made their presence known at the 2015 ESPN Summer X-Games held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, June 4-7. Thousands of attendees visited the America's Navy area and took the opportunity to board a … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
Soldiers Make ‘Better, Faster Decisions’ Due to Army Modernization
FORT BLISS, Texas (June 8, 2015) - Teams, dedicated to fielding the Army's most advanced technologies, spend up to three quarters of their time traveling throughout the country. The mission at hand for system of Systems Engineering and Integration, Capability Package Directorate, is to create the architecture and design integration of capability sets, provide support to … [Read more...]
President of Panama and U.S. Ambassador Visit USNS Comfort During Continuing Promise 2015
JUNE 8, 2015, COLON, Panama (NNS) - President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela and U.S. Ambassador to Panama Jonathan Farrar visited the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) June 4 during Continuing Promise 2015 (CP-15). The visitors toured Comfort's operating rooms, patient wards, casualty and receiving area and met with Rear Adm. Jon Matheson, deputy … [Read more...]
Evaluation, Education, Compensation Dominate Discussion at Dailey Town Hall
FORT MEADE, Md. (Army News Service, June 8, 2015) - The debut of the new noncommissioned officer, or NCO, evaluation report, or NCOER, expected as a cure for rating inflation, has been pushed to the new year. During an Army birthday town hall meeting with Soldiers, June 4, Sgt. Maj. of the Army, or SMA, Daniel A. Dailey said the new NCOER, which was originally slated for … [Read more...]
Robots from South Korea, U.S. Win DARPA Finals
POMONA, Calif., June 8, 2015 - A robot from South Korea took first prize and two American robots took second and third prizes here yesterday in the two-day robotic challenge finals held by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Twenty-three human-robot teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, or DRC, finals competed for $3.5 million in prizes, working to … [Read more...]