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Naval Sustainment System-Supply (NSS-S) 2.0 Speakers Panel

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (April 9, 2024) Keynote speakers for the Naval Sustainment System-Supply (NSS-S) 2.0 panel speak during the 2024 Sea, Air, and Space (SAS) Exposition, April 9, 2024.

USS Higgins Live Fire Missile Launch

PHILIPPINE SEA (April 5, 2024) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a Standard Missile (SM) 2 from a forward launcher while operating in the Philippine Sea, April 5, 2024.

USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (April 8, 2024) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) is moved to an outfitting berth in Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 2024. John C. Stennis is in Newport News Shipbuilding conducting a refueling and complex overhaul to prepare the ship for the second half of its 50-year service life. Read more about it.

New Ammunition Pier at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach

SEAL BEACH, Calif. (April 9, 2024) The guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) moors alongside a new ammunition pier at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, becoming the first ship to use the facility for munitions transfer operations. The new pier will allow for safer and more efficient operations while supporting larger Navy vessels. (SEAL BEACH, Calif. (April 9, 2024)

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Virtualized Combat System Completes Critical Navy First

ATLANTIC OCEAN -- Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) fires a standard missile (SM-2) during Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) in the Atlantic Ocean on Feb.18, 2024. The crew's successful intercept of an air target with a missile (SM-2) is a first for a ship running a virtualized Aegis Combat System. This milestone, achieved during the ship's final phase of CSSQT, marks a significant contribution to the Navy's wider effort to field a single integrated combat system to surface ships. (U.S. Navy Photo)

April 24, 2024 - WASHINGTON — Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) recently became the first ship running a fully virtualized Aegis Combat System to successfully intercept an air target with a missile.Achieved...

Royal Australian Navy Sailors graduate Submarine Officer Basic Course: next step, assignment to U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines

U.S. Naval Submarine School hosted a graduation ceremony for students in the Submarine Officer Basic Course at the USS Nautilus and Submarine Museum, April 18, 2024.

This course provides basic guidance in tactics, weapons, fire control, navigation, and operations. This graduation marks the first U.S. Naval Submarine School graduation for Royal Australian Navy Officers as part of AUKUS and their last leg of nuclear submarine training before heading out into the U.S. Naval Submarine Force.

April 19, 2024 - (April 18, 2024) — In a first for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), three RAN officers graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC) on Apr. 18, 2024, at the Naval Submarine School in...

U.S.-India Joint Working Group on Aircraft Carrier Technology Cooperation concludes 7th meeting with PEO Aircraft Carriers

WASHINGTON D.C. (April 16, 2024) Rear Adm. Casey Moton, USN, Program Executive Officer for Aircraft Carriers, and Rear Adm. Sandeep Mehta, Assistant Controller Warship Production and Acquisition/Assistant Controller of Carrier Projects for the Indian Navy, met to discuss best practices in the areas of carrier design and aviation integration as part of the seventh meeting of the U.S.-India Joint Working Group on Aircraft Carrier Technology Cooperation (JWGACTC).

April 18, 2024 - WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, DC –The seventh meeting of the U.S.-India Joint Working Group on Aircraft Carrier Technology Cooperation (JWGACTC) concluded on Friday at the Washington Navy Yard, with a session hosted by Rear Adm...

U.S. Navy Commemorates Keel Laying Ceremony for Constellation-Class Guided-Missile Frigate (FFG 62)

MARINETTE, Wisc. – The U.S. Navy symbolically laid the keel to its first Constellation-class guided-missile frigate, the future USS Constellation (FFG 62) during a keel laying ceremony at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisc., April 12.

Distinguished guests (left to right) pictured: Mr. James Dillenburg, Ceremony Chaplain; Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations; Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy; Ms. Jean Wagner, Welder; Mrs. Melissa Braithwaite, Ship Sponsor; Mr. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin; Mr. Mark Vandroff, Chief Executive Officer, Fincantieri Marinetti Marine; Mr. Marco Galbiati, Chief Executive Officer, Fincantieri Marine Group; Rear Adm. Kevin Smith, Program Executive Officer, Unmanned and Small Combatants

The Constellation-class guided-missile frigate (FFG 62) represents the Navy’s next generation small surface combatant. This ship class will be an agile, multi-mission warship, capable of operations in both blue-water and littoral environments, providing increased combat-credible forward presence that provides a military advantage at sea.

April 12, 2024 - MARINETTE, Wisc. – The U.S. Navy marked a significant construction milestone for the first Constellation-class guided-missile frigate (FFG 62) with a keel laying ceremony at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, April 12. The event...

NAVSEA Commander announces Sailor of the Year winners

WASHINGTON (April 11, 2024) Vice Adm. James P. Downey, commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) (left) announced Hull Technician 1st Class Jennifer Schleuning from Southeast Regional Maintenance Center, Jacksonville, Fla. (second from left) and Machinist Mate 1st Class Matthew Lipscomb from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Everett, Wash. (second from right) NAVSEA Sailor of the Year (SOY) for the active duty and reservist categories. NAVSEA’s senior enlisted Sailor Command Master Chief Blake G. Schimmel (right).

As NAVSEA’s top enlisted Sailors Schleuning and Lipscomb will now compete for the Navy’s highest enlisted awards, Chief of Naval Operations Shore and Reserve SOY.

NAVSEA is the largest of the US Navy's six systems commands. With a force of nearly 87,000 civilian and military personnel, NAVSEA engineers, builds, buys and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines and their combat systems.

April 12, 2024 - WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Vice Adm. Jim Downey, commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), announced the active duty and reserve 2023 Sailor of the Year award winners during a ceremony held at the Washington Navy Yard on...

U. S. Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Richard M. McCool Jr.

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) from HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding April 11.

April 11, 2024 - The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) from HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding, April 11.San Antonio-class ships, including the future USS Richard...

NAVSEA Remembers Crew of USS Thresher

(SSN-593) Starboard bow view, taken at sea on 24 July 1961. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

April 11, 2024 - Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) hosted a Apr. 10 ceremony honoring 129 crewmembers — 16 officers, 96 enlisted Sailors, and 17 civilian technicians — who lost their lives onboard USS Thresher (SSN 593) 61 years prior.NAVSEA...

Navy's Needed Revitalization of the Submarine Workforce Accelerates

April 11, 2024 - NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — During a key panel at the 2024 Sea-Air-Space exposition, Erica Logan, deputy director for Workforce, Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) program, Program Executive Office (PEO) Strategic Submarines,...