FEBRUARY 7, 2024 - The U.S. Navy took a first step to enhance rotary-wing aviation capabilities with an innovative approach that will benefit an age-old partnership. Eight Student Naval Aviators (SNA) including five Navy and three Coast Guard students began training under a new joint-Service, public-private partnership program that promises faster time-to-train, greater … [Read more...]
Secretary of Navy Meets with Small Businesses
FEBRUARY 7, 2024 - Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro today spoke to hundreds of small business owners at the National 8(a) Association Small Business Conference in Atlanta, Feb. 6. The National 8(a) Association is a non-profit that provides education and guidance for small businesses including minority, aspiring, current and graduate 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOB, VOSB, SDB, … [Read more...]
Navy Vice Chief Focused on Recruiting Efforts
Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby, speaks with Sailors and civilians assigned to Naval Aviation Schools Command during a visit to Naval Air Station Pensacola, Jan. 31, 2024. Kilby visited Pensacola to engage with Sailors and meet with leadership to discuss recruiting and manning challenges and initiatives, pay and personnel, and supporting our Sailors. Naval … [Read more...]
Navy Launches Wi-Fi Pilot Program at Select Installations
JANUARY 25, 2024 - Free Wi-Fi is expected to provide Sailors access to virtual entertainment as well as online training and higher education courses without having to pay out of their own pockets. To determine if free Wi-Fi meets the needs and desires of Sailors residing in unaccompanied housing, the Navy is launching a pilot program at installations located in the Hampton … [Read more...]
Coast Guard’s Polar Star Cuts Through Ice with Help of NSWCPD
JANUARY 24, 2024 - Thanks, in part, to a critical modernization program conducted by a team of engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) and various U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) engineering and acquisition offices, Operation Deep Freeze 2024, the annual joint military service resupply mission to the remote Antarctica outpost of McMurdo, is currently … [Read more...]