Navy Engineer Impacts Public-Private Sector Research on Wearable and Embeddable Technology — Naval Surface Warfare Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineer Brenden McMullen researched for six months as a member of a focus group sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2014. The questions McMullen and his counterparts analyzed had one common denominator — “wearable and embeddable technology.”
You Asked… The Blue Angels Answered — The Blue Angels answered a fan question each day ahead of the flight demonstration squadron’s first airshow performance in El Centro, Calif., on March 14.
Navy Releases Revised Maritime Strategy — The sea services released a new maritime strategy, March 13, a plan that describes how the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard will design, organize, and employ naval forces in support of national security interests and homeland security objectives. The new strategy titled, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready, accounts for changes in the global security environment, new strategic guidance, and a changed fiscal environment. The new strategy emphasizes operating forward and engaging partners across the globe, especially in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
First Afghan Woman Pilot Flies with Blue Angels — The Afghan Air Force's first female fixed-wing pilot visited the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and flew in a Blue Angel's jet at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, March 11. Capt. Niloofar Rahmani flew her orientation flight in the back seat of a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet with Narrator and VIP pilot, Blue Angel #7, Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss.
USS Cole Wraps up Deployment, Returns to Norfolk — The guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) returned to Naval Station Norfolk after a seven-month deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations (AOO). Cole, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, departed Norfolk, Aug. 22, 2014 and spent the deployment supporting U.S. national security interests in Europe. The ship transited more than 40,000 miles, participating in Exercise Mavi Balina, a multilateral, anti-submarine exercise hosted by Turkey, a passing exercise with the French navy's Charles De Gaulle Carrier Strike Group, and multiple passing exercises with Romania, Turkey, Israel, and France. Cole also conducted maritime security operations in support of Operation Active Endeavour.
U.S., Republic of Korea Navy Affirm Strategic Alliance — U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy ships concluded the maritime portion of exercise Foal Eagle March 11. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), and USS Lassen (DDG 82) operated with total of 16 ROK Navy ships in port and at sea for seven days on both coasts of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) is the first littoral combat ship to operate as part of Foal Eagle's maritime participants involved in the exercise.
20-Year Project Captures Navy's Women's History — Some of the earliest women in America's Navy have a new place where their stories are being told, here at the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, Rhode Island, through a project just completed by college archivists. An oral history project more than 20 years in the making, the Naval Historical Collection at NWC collected and preserved the firsthand accounts of female Sailors and Marines in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). Their stories are now available online for the first time.
80 Years of Excellence for the Navy Information Warfare/Cryptology Community — The Navy’s Information Warfare/Cryptology community celebrates 80 years of service.
100 Years of Navy Reserve Honor, Courage, Commitment Celebrated at Pearl Harbor — Civilians, active duty and Reserve Sailors gathered at the historic Battleship Missouri Memorial on Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam March 11 for the Navy Reserve Centennial Commemoration (NRCC). Following the parading of the colors and the invocation, Rear Adm. Alma Grocki, director of Fleet Maintenance U.S. Pacific Fleet, and 27-year Navy Reservist, delivered the ceremony's opening remarks, commending Navy Reserve Sailors for being, "ready then, ready now and ready always."
#NavyInnovates in the Arctic — Dr. Martin Jeffries from the Office of Naval Research discusses current conditions in the Arctic, the Marginal Ice Zone, and the Arctic and Global Prediction Program.
These stories originally published by Navy News Service during Mar. 9-13, 2015. For more Navy news, go to: www.navy.mil/.