This is a World Wide Web site for official information about the United States Navy. It is provided as a public service by the U.S.
Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C.. The purpose of this Web site is to provide information about the
United States Navy to the general public. All information on this site is considered public information and may be distributed or
copied unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. Unauthorized attempts
to upload information or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act. For site security purposes
and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Except
for authorized law enforcement investigation and to maintain required correspondence files, no other attempts are made to
identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used to simply determine how many users are accessing the
site, which pages are the most popular, and, from time to time, from which top level domain users are coming. This data is
scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.