The academy required businesses — some that have served the institution for decades — to sign contracts effective Oct. 1 that give over a portion of their commissions. The contracts also stop businesses from charging higher rates to pass the cost of the new fee on to clients.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson will meet with his counterpart Vice Adm. Shen Jinlong and leaders of China's Central Military Commission during his visit to Beijing and the eastern city of Nanjing lasting through Wednesday, the Navy said.

Capt. Thomas R. “TR” Buchanan is a 1992 graduate of the academy. He will replace Capt. Robert Chadwick, who has served since July 2017, as the next commandant of midshipmen at the Naval Academy.

The commander of a fast-attack submarine was relieved of his duties last summer after admitting he paid for “female accompaniment” during a stop in the Philippines, a Washington state newspaper reported Friday.

As a Navy counselor, Joseph Fetterman was tasked with mentoring young enlisted sailors at Tinker Air Force Base — but Fetterman was enhancing his military pay with cash flow from a prostitution ring that he and his wife operated using women flown in from Thailand.

A Navy SEAL will become a fleet master chief for only the second time in the service’s history this spring when Master Chief Petty Officer Derrick Walters takes the post at Naval Forces Europe and Africa.

The Navy is slated to commission its newest littoral combat ship, the future USS Wichita, during a ceremony Saturday in Naval Station Mayport, Fla.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Ethan D. Strandberg and Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew W. Miller, both nuclear machinist mates, were reduced in rank to E-1 and discharged from the Navy for bad conduct in exchange for pleading guilty to drug distribution.

Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 39, has been in the brig since his September arrest on charges of premeditated murder and other offenses in relation to the death of an Islamic State prisoner and the shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians.

The $2.6 billion, 377-foot-long USS North Dakota will return to its home port of Groton, Connecticut, on Jan. 31 after a six-month deployment. The submarine is able to launch cruise missiles, deliver special forces and carry out surveillance.

The crew of the soon-to-be commissioned USS Wichita have no choice but to be close. Here's what the commanding officer of the Navy's newest ship has to say about his new crew.

A Naval officer will be going to jail after being convicted of stealing millions from the government to fund his gambling habit.

Navy Capt. John R. Nettleton was charged with obstruction of justice and concealing material facts involving an investigation into the death of a civilian, who accused the base commander of having an affair with his wife.

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U.S. warplanes thundered off the runway as the USS John C. Stennis maneuvered through the Persian Gulf during an intense 24 hours that sent scores of bomb-carrying fighters into Iraq and Syria, where American air power remains on display despite talk of a troop drawdown.

The Japanese government is planning to buy an island in its Kagoshima prefecture for U.S. aircraft-carrier landing practice as soon as March, according to a Thursday report by the Jiji Press.

The voluntary buyouts are intended to cut overhead costs and spur reorganization at the shipyard. The division of Huntington Ingalls Industries employs more than 23,000.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Arnold Austin of Warrior, Ala. was accounted for in September 2018, 77 years after his death on board the USS Oklahoma.

The Navy test-fired a series of new hypervelocity projectiles this past summer from the destroyer USS Dewey during Rim of the Pacific exercises off Hawaii that the Congressional Research Service said could be a “game changer” for defending warships against an increasingly sophisticated array of Chinese missiles.

Sailors can now view parts of their training records on a mobile device without having to plug electronic ID cards into government computers.

A Quantico, Va.-based corpsman faces a second degree murder charge in the stabbing death of a Washington D.C. man, according to local police and court officials.

Just days into the new congressional session, some House lawmakers are trying again to secure benefits for thousands of veterans who served on ships off the coast during the Vietnam War – an effort that failed by the time the 115th Congress ended last month.

The USS McCampbell guided-missile destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Chinese-claimed Paracel Islands in a freedom-of-navigation mission Monday, a Navy official said.

Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Monday the destroyer USS McCampbell had violated Chinese and international law, infringed on Chinese sovereignty and undermined peace and stability.

The Navy appears to have detected “pingers” from a KC-130J tanker and F/A-18D Hornet involved in a deadly midair collision last month off Japan’s southern coast, according to III Marine Expeditionary Force.

“After two years in the Pentagon, I’ve decided the time is right to return to the private sector. It has been an honor to serve again alongside the men and women of the Department of Defense,” retired Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney said in a statement released Saturday.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service at the biggest naval base in the world said they're investigating much fewer cases of housing allowance fraud since a record 21 cases in 2017, but the problem still exists.

The Navy announced that Connecticut-based Electric Boat will do initial maintenance work on the future submarine Delaware, rather than Newport News Shipbuilding as was initially planned.

To help fellow mariners navigate, Naval Station Mayport via American Electrical Contracting recently installed more than 760 new lighting fixtures intended to protect nesting sea turtles and their hatchlings.

Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash in Alaska in 2010. At the time of his death, he had been the longest continuously serving U.S. senator, with a tenure that lasted between 1968 and 2009.

Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher is facing charges of premediated murder and numerous other offenses in connection with the fatal stabbing of a teenage Islamic State prisoner, along with the shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilians, in 2017.

An American airstrike earlier this week targeted an al-Qaida operative accused of involvement in the attack nearly two decades ago on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.

Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer announced Friday that he's naming a destroyer for Jeremiah Denton, a naval aviator shot down and imprisoned in Vietnam in 1965, who famously blinking out "torture" in Morse code with his eyes during a television interview.

A retired Marine Corps officer whose career was damaged after his unit was falsely accused in 2007 of war crimes in Afghanistan should have his rank elevated and be awarded back pay for damages, a Navy board has determined.

Two Navy crews in late December completed the longest trip ever in Mark VI patrol boats over the Pacific Ocean — 500 nautical miles — according to the Navy.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward R. Gallagher is scheduled to be arraigned in a San Diego military courtroom Friday.

The Navy says the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is getting a new commander this year.

The deal will cover the future USS Enterprise also known as CVN-80, now undergoing advance work in Newport News, plus the as-yet-unnamed CVN-81. These are the third and fourth carriers of the Gerald R. Ford class.

The Navy’s new annual performance evaluation will be missing several exclamation points, lots of capital letters and a rating block system that some sailors said allows lesser performers to advance because they aren’t being compared broadly enough with their peers.

Task Force 70 commander Rear Adm. Karl Thomas removed Master Chief Petty Officer Jason Pick “due to misconduct identified during an ongoing investigation,” a Task Force 70 spokesman said.

Alfred Procopio Jr. left the Navy in 1967, decorated with medals for his service on the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier deployed off the coast of Vietnam. He also came home with health problems the U.S. government has linked to exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange.

The elimination of the paper forms is "designed to streamline our advancement worksheet processes, and enable sailors to focus on studying their advancement exam reference material."

The contract includes options which, if exercised and fully funded by the Navy, would bring the total value of the contract to $86.7 million and extend the contract through 2023.

Bread-and-water confinement is a nonjudicial penalty that ship commanders can mete out to misbehaving sailors in the lowest three pay grades. It dates back to when warships had wooden hulls and sails.

State governments and other groups across the nation are paying for some federal national parks to remain open during the government shutdown, which started Saturday.

A military judge has ruled that statements by the Navy’s top two officers about a deadly 2017 destroyer collision constituted apparent unlawful command influence, but not enough to merit a dismissal of the case.

The USS John C. Stennis will spend Christmas in the Persian Gulf after the carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, arriving during a time of increased threats from Iran and ending an eight-month carrier absence in the region.

U.S. sailors have joined forces with Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy for the first time during a submarine-hunting exercise in the Philippine Sea.

Edson Acuna faces one count of murder with a special circumstance allegation that the murder of Curtis Adams, a 21-year-old Navy Seabee, was committed during a robbery.

The Navy christened and launched its newest littoral combat ship, the USS St. Louis, during a recent ceremony in Marinette, Wisc.

The U.S. Navy will need to do more to counter Russia’s increasing military activity, the service’s number two civilian said Tuesday, a move that could increase the service’s profile in a region where the Army and Air Force have stationed large forces for decades.

The Dunham has been deployed for the past seven months in the U.S. Navy’s 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation.

The 16th Lone Sailor statue, unveiled this month on Guam, is the farthest west of a series of Lone Sailor statues erected across the country by the U.S. Navy Memorial nonprofit organization.

Seabee Curtis Adams was shot and killed near San Diego in October after pulling over to help who he thought was a stranded motorist. A first suspect has already been arrested and charged with Adams' murder.

Austal USA apparently will continue its hot streak: The Department of Defense has indicated that in its fiscal 2019 budget cycle, two of three contracts for Littoral Combat Ships once again will go to the Mobile-based shipbuilder.

The report, published last month, said the Navy in Japan had “improved markedly” the number of surface ship crews with lapsed training certifications over the past year.

Kings Bay base officials said Petty Officer Third Class Jonathan Harrell is a U.S. Navy sailor stationed at the base, but not assigned to any submarine. They stated they were aware of the incident and are cooperating with the Sheriff's Office in its investigation. The had no other comment.

The amphibious assault ship departed early for a scheduled deployment of its ready group, which includes the Norfolk-based transport dock USS Arlington and the Mayport, Fla.-based dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry, to the Middle East and Europe.

The recently christened Virginia-class submarine Delaware is the 18th Virginia-class submarine built as part of the teaming agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat and the ninth to be delivered by Newport News.

A 24-acre plot of land on Grays Ferry Avenue in Philadelphia has been associated with the Navy since 1827 and has the unusual distinction of being the final resting place of Dexter, the Navy’s last working horse.

Strike group commander Rear Adm. Gene Black said the Truman's eight-month deployment was unlike any he had done before.

A retired two-star admiral and former Trump administration nominee repeatedly solicited and accepted gifts from military contractor Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis and used his position to benefit Francis’ company, according to a letter of censure released Friday.

Two Maryland congressmen who raised concerns after a false alarm about an active shooter caused an 80-minute lockdown at the Walter Reed National Medical Center campus last month say they are satisfied the U.S. Navy is “taking proactive steps” to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

Reince Priebus, a former chief of staff to President Donald Trump and Republican power broker, could join the Navy after a monthslong process in which Defense Secretary Jim Mattis recommended him and a board of officers selected him as a reserve officer, according to defense officials and a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

There are over 4,500 sailors and Marines serving in the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) that will deploy Dec. 17.

Using the last arrow in their quiver, veteran groups and service organizations urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to use his personal influence with two Republican senators to persuade them to allow a vote on the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act (HR 299) before the 115th Congress expires next week.

A Chinese military expert has suggested the People’s Liberation Navy should “ram” the next U.S. warship to sail through waters claimed by China, according to a report by the state-run newspaper Global Times.

The test was the second consecutive successful interception for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile. The interceptor missile was launched from land using the Aegis Ashore system; the target was fired from a U.S. Air Force C-17 thousands of miles away.

In a somber congressional hearing on Navy and Marine Corps readiness, lawmakers expressed condolences, read aloud the names of the Marines who died in a recent crash and urged newfound vigilance for the military.

The third and final Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer was launched from the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, the Navy announced recently.

The $5 million restoration project is a collaboration between the Catalina Island Conservancy and the U.S. military and will be used as a training exercise for the troops. The Marines will do a complete repair of the 3,000-foot-long, 60-foot-wide runway.

The Navy hasn’t purchased two carriers at once since the defense building during the Reagan administration, but the Ford-class carrier program could pave the way for bulk purchases of other ships, such as large-deck amphibious assault ships.

The USS McCampbell sailed near contested waters claimed by Russia during a freedom-of-navigation operation in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, according to news reports.

The USS Wasp, which arrived at Sasebo Naval Base in January, is expected to leave for Naval Station Norfolk, Va., sometime next year.

Two Virginia Beach-based members of SEAL Team Six and two Marines, who face charges in the death of Army Staff Sergeant and Green Beret Logan Melgar, had their hearing continued.

The new head of the Senate Armed Services panel says he's leery of backing the Pentagon's plan to buy two aircraft carriers in one contract so long as contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries is struggling to fix the elevators needed to lift bombs from below deck.

Families and friends of the USS Ronald Reagan sailors waited with patriotic signs as their loved ones pulled into port. They were joined by Santa Claus, who welcomed the crew home just in time for the holidays.

The USS Barry finished its yearlong stint undergoing repairs and modernizations at the Navy’s Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center on Tuesday. Workers flooded the dry dock and floated the ship to its new home on the Yokosuka pier.

An apparent tornado damaged buildings, blew vehicles into the sea and injured five people on Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in southern Georgia on Sunday, base officials said.

The 76 migrants from Libya who drowned in June when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean represent the human trafficking, corruption and political instability in parts of Africa that require international cooperation to overcome, the Navy’s top commander in Europe and Africa said Monday.

The breakdown of talks is the latest sign of a bitter divide between the Navy and many residents of the rural central part of the island who fiercely oppose plans to quadruple, in the years ahead, the number of Growler flights over the Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve.

Vice Adm. Jim Malloy is slated to take command of 5th Fleet this week. A private memorial is being planned for Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, who died this weekend.

British sailors are working side-by-side with the U.S. Navy in Bahrain, where the United Kingdom’s only forward deployed naval facility is now up and running as the key U.S. ally boosts its global military presence.

The USNS Comfort was dispatched on the mission “Enduring Promise” in August after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Colombia amid escalating tensions with Venezuela.

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The commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the 5th Fleet was found dead in his Bahrain residence, the Navy announced.

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The U.S. Navy has commissioned its newest guided-missile destroyer, named for a Navy pilot from Massachusetts who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War.

The Navy on Monday sent one of its guided-missile cruisers through the contentious waters around the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, according to U.S. Pacific Fleet officials.

The USS Hudner is the newest ship in the U.S. Navy. It was named for Fall River, Mass. native Thomas Hudner, a Navy pilot, who earned the Medal of Honor for service in Korea.

A 24-year-old man whose newborn died after suffering numerous skull and rib fractures was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison.

Alton Grizzard, was a four-year starter at quarterback for the Naval Academy, was tragically killed in a shooting at U.S. Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, Calif. in 1993 — but his impact and legacy still permeates the Army-Navy game year after year.

The USS Ashland’s sailors and Marines were among more than 800 servicemembers across all military branches working on relief efforts in the aftermath of Yutu.

Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the new catapult systems on the USS Gerald R. Ford and has wondered why the Navy doesn’t stick with the more traditional steam system used on the current Nimitz-class ships.

The effort to memorialize the 129 men who were lost aboard the USS Thresher on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery got a boost this month with approval from the cemetery's advisory committee.

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The USS John S. McCain floated again into the waters of its homeport on Tuesday, 15 months after a collision with a civilian oil tanker left 10 sailors dead and the destroyer severely damaged.

A retired admiral who had been nominated for a senior job in the Trump administration has been torpedoed for his involvement in the Fat Leonard corruption scandal, according to Navy officials.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls on the Navy to develop a plan to better distribute submarine repair work between public shipyards and private shipyards such as Electric Boat, which can accommodate the work.