Navy

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

Today, May 25, 2020, the nation honored and remembered the brave members of our military that paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. The coronavirus pandemic meant the many of the usual parades and mass…

The FBI says a shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead is being investigated as “terrorism-related.”

Twenty years after the inception of NMCI, the Navy’s networks still aren’t unified and have a very hard time dealing with cloud services. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as something of a wake-up call to help fix that.

Officials said Friday that DoD’s newest combatant command will stay at its temporary home in Colorado Springs for the next six years; it’s expected to take about that long for a new basing decision to be made and new facilities to be built.

In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It’s a long list.

The long-term vision is to reduce friction in the Navy’s innovation ecosystem. In the meantime, it may also help keep some of its smallest and most vital suppliers afloat.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Pentagon’s inspector general has launched its own review into the Navy’s handling of coronavirus aboard its ships.

The Pentagon told its contracting officers and contract administrators to boost the amount of money it pays vendors in the form of progress payments as one way to increase their cash flow amidst a sagging economy.

The Navy’s spending has increased every year since 2014. But that battleship could start coming around next year.

The Navy Department’s acquisition boss says the pandemic has helped to drive efficiencies into the contracting system, and many of them will need to become a lasting part of how the Navy and Marine Corps do business.

Small defense businesses are laying off employees, but they may have an opportunity to grow with DoD.

The top Navy officer has recommended that Capt. Brett Crozier be returned to his ship

The Navy is trying to work with its industrial base and learn lessons from the crisis.