230230-N-MS174-0001 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (March 30, 2023) Michael Vasaturo, the personnel security manager for Naval Medical Forces Atlantic (NMFL) begins reviewing the security management program with Chief Yeoman Diandra Card, a team administrator with the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Medical Inspector (MEDIG), during a command IG inspection. MEDIG evaluated the … [Read more...]
Exchange Customers Can Support Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
APRIL 6, 2023 - Springtime brings April showers, blooming flowers and warmer temperatures. It’s also the time of year that NEX and MCX patrons have the opportunity to assist the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS) by purchasing a $5 benefit ticket. This year, the benefit tickets will be on sale April 2 – May 13 at select NEX locations and online at myNavyExchange.com … [Read more...]
MDA Test Successfully Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target
APRIL 3, 2023 - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, successfully conducted Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1a (FTM-31 E1a). The test demonstrated the capability of a ballistic missile defense (BMD)-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage, and intercept a medium range ballistic missile (MRBM) target in the terminal phase of … [Read more...]
USS Santa Barbara Commissions in Namesake State
APRIL 3, 2023 – Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) commissioned at Port Hueneme aboard Naval Base Ventura County, April 1. "Littoral Combat Ships are versatile platforms. A successor in heritage to the escort fleets of the Second World War. They are fast, agile, and mission-tailored to operate in near-shore and open-ocean environments,” said … [Read more...]
NIWC Pacific Building a Quantum Navy
MARCH 30, 2023 - Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific’s mission touches cyber, sea, space — and, since 2000, the subatomic realm. We make sense of the first three through programming rules and various fields of classical mechanics; the fourth is something else entirely. For one, classical physics can predict, with simple mathematics, how an object will move and … [Read more...]