The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and destroyer USS Bainbridge left Naval Station Norfolk, Va., and will meet up with destroyer USS Forest Sherman, which deployed in May.

The Navy’s newest and most advanced amphibious assault ship arrived in Japan this week to take over as flagship of Amphibious Squadron 11, replacing the USS America as part of a homeport shift aimed at strengthening U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific.

A day before the U.S. Army celebrated its birthday in Washington, representatives from the Navy attended a small commemoration for a different kind of anniversary: 100 years since one of the first demonstrations of the technology that would become television.

An Azerbaijani man suspected of espionage had thousands of photographs of a U.S.-Greek military facility on the island of Crete stored on various devices, authorities in Greece say.

The amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge concluded a summer deployment that covered 16,000 miles in three months around the Indo-Pacific.

Naval Support Activity Bahrain remained under lockdown, with access limited to mission-critical personnel, in the wake of U.S. strikes on Iran.

The Navy announced it has awarded an $8 billion contract to 11 companies for a series of construction, maintenance and renovation projects to facilities, as well as the demolition of old facilities, in Hawaii and on Wake Island.

The achievement reflects focus and the ability to capitalize on the previous year’s momentum, a Navy statement said. The total of 40,978 future sailors contracted in 2024 was the highest since 2002.

The report goes through the final approach of the Cessna Citation S550, which was less than two miles from the Kearny Mesa airport when it went down. The preliminary report does not indicate a cause of the crash.

A new Navy program is giving non-deployable sailors a second chance to serve by placing them in shore-based assignments instead of forcing early separation.