Navy

Photos of the amazing, moving, important and amusing things happening in the defense community.

TRICARE beneficiaries now have until the end of the year to change their health plan.

The Navy is using video games to train flight deck operators on aircraft carriers. The simulator uses virtual reality, gesture recognition and touch screens for controls and real ship systems.

The Navy tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that a change in funding could hurt its trajectory on readiness.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Senate Democrats said more than 300,000 federal employees will be furloughed if Congress can’t come to a deal on seven remaining appropriation bills.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is asking the Office of Special Counsel to rescind its recent memo prohibiting certain speech such as resist or impeachment.

The Navy secretary wants the service’s schools to research with industry.

For Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), emphasizing readiness and lethality means making sure Navy maintainers have the parts they need, when they need them.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department’s Inspector General says the Air Force missed certain steps that could have prevented last year’s mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

The military services are thinking about sending troops to different areas depending on deployability status.

Members of the military who joined before Jan. 1, 2018, only have until the end of the year to join the blended retirement system.

The Defense Department is putting an emphasis on jointness and addressing injuries in the field in order to ensure military competitiveness.

Artificial intelligence is at the top of the Navy’s list of new technologies that it wants to get involved with.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Department of Veterans Affairs was forced to change how it pays for veterans’ education benefits after IT problems.