Navy

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The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing coronavirus outbreak has been fired

Resources exist to help feds during natural disasters, and they’re mobilizing now to help out during the coronavirus.

U.S. Navy officials say nearly 3,000 sailors aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier where the coronavirus has spread will be taken off the ship by Friday as military leaders struggle to quarantine crew members in the face of an outbreak

The Navy says it is now searching for appropriate places in Guam to house the 4,000 crewmembers of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt. The change followed a letter from the ship’s commanding officer warning the onboard isolation strategy was “ineffective.”

The crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was allowed to disembark for a port visit in Vietnam two weeks ago, but the Navy is unwilling to make a direct connection between that event and the new COVID-19 cases.

In today’s Federal Newscast, military medical facilities are postponing all elective surgeries, invasive procedures and dental procedures due to the response to coronavirus.

Thousands of troops are stuck waiting until May for their next move.

The Pentagon’s role in responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is rapidly expanding, with the likely deployment of Navy hospital ships and Army field hospitals

When Congress decreed that certain Vietnam War Navy veterans could get help for exposure to Agent Orange, the Department of Veterans Affairs had a challenge.

The Navy sees the new process, called RAISED, as a “critical enabler” for its ambitions to deploy newly-built software to ships in under 24 hours.

Naval Supply Systems Command has started implementing a private sector concept — an integrated supply chain control tower — to help eliminate shortages and excess ordering.

General Dynamics Information Technology, one of the two losing bidders for the largest portion of the NGEN contract, has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office.

The U.S. Navy wants to create a naval community college to provide associate’s degrees to tens of thousands of young sailors and Marines at no cost to them.