MARCH 15, 2023 - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is set to launch the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link (SWELL) to demonstrate laser power beaming in space as part of the scheduled U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) H9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) March 15. SWELL is one of several experiments that will launch aboard the SpaceX Dragon … [Read more...]

MARCH 14, 2023 - One of the premier innovators of the fields of meteorology and oceanography, the Navy is also a trailblazer in unmanned systems, notably METOC’s use of air, sea surface, and underwater craft. The U.S. Navy’s development of unmanned systems dates to the Pioneer Era of Aviation. In 1911, the Navy contracted Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyroscope (critical for … [Read more...]

MARCH 13, 2023 – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Pacific awarded a $2.8-billion task order under a previously-awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award construction contract to Dragados/Hawaiian Dredging/Orion JV, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, to replace Dry Dock 3 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility … [Read more...]

230303-N-MW880-1046 ADRIATIC SEA (March 3, 2023) Command Master Chief Nick Wallace, left, takes a selfie with Tom Cruise, center left, Executive Officer, Capt. Gregory Nery, center right, and Commanding Officer, Capt. Dave Pollard, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, during a visit to the ship, March 3, 2023. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group … [Read more...]

MARCH 8, 2023 - USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), U.S. Sixth Fleet flagship, completed a Regular Overhaul (ROH) period that included dry docking in the port of Genoa, Italy, Feb. 22. The maintenance and repairs, part of the shipboard maintenance cycle, began in August 2022 and were completed by Military Sealift Command civil service mariners, U.S. contractors and local shipyard … [Read more...]