Austal USA hosted the christening of Littoral Combat Ship 22, the U.S.S. Kansas City, at its manufacturing facility. The ship is the 17th Independence-class LCS the company has under contract with the Navy.

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The Navy announced late last year that it would disband the Navy Expeditionary Combat Camera command, by Oct. 1 to save money. Sailors who served in Combat Camera commands have been reassigned across the fleet.

The Navy Times reported Friday the unidentified SEAL based in California was being held in the brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, though he has not been charged with a crime.

The U.S. Naval Academy's cyber operations program has been formally accredited.

A wide-ranging study of sexual assault and harassment among military ranks found the biggest risks are on a few of its largest bases, especially for the Army and Marine Corps. The greatest risk, however, is on the Navy’s fleet of ships.

Senior military representatives from more than 100 countries met in Rhode Island this week to talk about ways to cooperate and address shared challenges.

The 21-year-old Navy medical specialist died after a two-car crash in Casal di Principe, a town about seven miles from the Navy Support Site. A second U.S. servicemember was injured, but has already been released from a local hospital.

The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the Independence-class Kansas City is 418 feet long and capable of operating in excess of 40 knots. It will have a core crew of 40 sailors and carry a pair of MH-60R Seahawk helicopters and an MQ-8 Fire Scout drone.

Tom Cruise has been shooting scenes for the next Top Gun movie in the central San Joaquin Valley and he was spotted this week at Lemoore Naval Air Station.

The Navy says its attack submarine USS Pittsburgh had to return to its Connecticut base recently because of what was described as a "minor" moisture leak within its nuclear propulsion plant.

Australia's HMAS Hobart made its first international port visit to Hawaii Tuesday as a part of a celebration of 100 years of “mateship” between two the U.S. and Australia.

Seaman Apprentice Joseph Min Naglak, 21, was an aviation boatswain’s mate from West Windsor, New Jersey. He had served aboard the Bush since August 2017, four months after he enlisted in the service.

Navy Chief Petty Officer Andrea L. Washington was found dead late Monday evening. Authorities are investigating the incident as a homicide, though an initial report obtained by ABC News said it was not related to domestic violence.

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Johnathon Stone promised his wife, who died of cancer, that he would continue to do good things in the world, take care of their four young children and find a new love. His journey to make it through loss inspired his book, "Finding Good."

General Dynamics-NASSCO is about to begin building a new class of oiler ships for the Navy, work that signals a sharp upturn for the San Diego shipyard, which has had a tough year that included a serious construction accident.

The officials described the death aboard the aircraft carrier as “a mishap” on the ship’s flight deck. The Bush was at sea conducting carrier qualification training after it had departed from Norfolk, Va., last week.

The death of a Navy sailor assigned to the USS Hue City is being investigated by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office as a homicide after she was found dead in her home.

Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran visited Navy bases in South Korea and Japan last week on a listening tour that he said brought helpful insight into on-the-ground operations in the Pacific.

The Pentagon has sent some 13,000 servicemembers to areas impacted by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina where they are charged with search and rescue and other operations as flooding worsened throughout the region Monday.

Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis testified in a deposition taken for a court martial case, part of what has become the worst corruption scandal for the Navy in decades.

Navy ships will begin returning to southeast Virginia on Sunday but at least one jurisdiction on southwestern Virginia declared a state of emergency on Saturday, as officials predicted that Tropical Storm Florence might threaten parts of the state with catastrophic flooding this week.

The Adm. James R. Hogg Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute will replace and build upon the previous work of the college's Center for Cyber Conflict Studies.

It's less costly to repair submarines at private shipyards than the Navy's public yards, according to a recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. And the Navy has said it prefers to go to public shipyards for its routine maintenance work because it costs less.

A sailor’s family members can move ahead or stay behind up to six months during a change of duty station in certain circumstances rather than moving all at once, the Navy announced Thursday.

The Navy and the Air Force are teaming up to get to the root cause of oxygen deprivation among its pilots, which officials have said is their single biggest safety concern in aviation.

An organization representing professors has urged the U.S. Naval Academy to rescind the firing of a tenured professor who was often critical of the school.

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Navy Seabees have been busy using “raw American muscle” to clear roads and pick up debris, said Task Force 76 commander Rear Adm. Brad Cooper.

With about 300,000 servicemembers, family members, reservists and retirees in the storm’s path, Rear Adm. Charles Rock said they are “taking it very seriously” as they prepare for Hurricane Florence.

U.S. 5th Fleet is participating in three exercises in the Middle East focused on critical chokepoints in the region, amid recent tensions at sea with Iran.

A Tacoma towing company sold the impounded car of a deployed Navy sailor, despite state and federal laws preventing such a transaction, the state of Washington has charged in a lawsuit.

Senior submarine officers can receive as much as $180,000 in signing bonuses under a new Navy plan to retain sailors with desired leadership skills. The bonuses are part of the Navy’s larger effort to keep senior leaders at the helm.

The USS New York is filled with tangible reminders of what happened 17 years ago in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania — and the ship's bow stem is crafted with 7.5 tons of steel from one of the twin towers.

The nation’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier welcomed a new leader during a ceremony at sea Monday.

The odds of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. East Coast next week keep growing. Forecast models paint an increasingly grim picture, converging on a track that would have what is currently Tropical Storm Florence making a direct hit as a powerful hurricane somewhere along the U.S. Southeast coast.

With the fall of the Soviet Union, anti-submarine warfare became less of a priority in the United States. But, anti-submarine warfare is "ramping up" again, according to David Sparks, president of SeaLandAire Technologies.

In 2016, Thomas Lewis began experiencing excruciating migraine headaches just before his sixth birthday. Eventually, he complained about headaches during the day and also became clumsy, bumping into walls around the house. Several months later, a visit to a neurologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., led to a diagnosis of brain cancer.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua Johnson was found dead at Naval Station Norfolk on Aug. 10. According to the Navy, there was no sign of foul play in Johnson's death.

The microgrid will allow the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Conn., to seamlessly disconnect from the community utility grid during a power disruption and efficiently dispatch power through the on-base microgrid to mission critical loads, such as homeported submarines, according to a press release

The USS Michael Murphy is in Australia for 16 days of drills aimed at fostering and strengthening security and humanitarian partnerships throughout the Indo-Pacific region.

The F-35C Lightning was receiving fuel from a F/A-18F Super Hornet when debris from a refueling basket was ingested into the engine. The Naval Safety Center classified the damage as "Class A," meaning property damage totaled more than $2 million or caused permanent damage

Midshipman second class Zachary Williams, who is on a leave of absence, will enter a plea Monday, the first step in the general court martial he faces for using, possessing and distributing drugs. A trial is scheduled for March.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier JS Kaga linked up there on Friday to practice maneuvers, sail in formation and conduct replenishment-at-sea training, according to the Navy.

"It was an important win and evidence that he was on his way to becoming a great player," said Steve Flink, a veteran tennis journalist and historian. "How great? We'll never know. That's the legacy. It's sad. It should have been the start of something."

Lt. Michael Douglas McNeil, who the Navy confirms was assigned to the guided-missile USS Lassen, was charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex, using a computer to solicit a guardian for consent and use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Friday that a superlift of a combined structure of 19 smaller units resulted in the completion of that work 14 months earlier than it had been on the USS Gerald R. Ford.

When the USS John S. McCain returns to sea, it will carry notes in sealed glass jars in tribute to 10 sailors who died in a ship collision a year ago. Those jars will be set adrift among the waves, carrying the thoughts of those who knew and loved them.

When John McCain is buried in the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, the late U.S. senator and Vietnam War POW will rest amid many Navy heroes with their own ties to the academy and to each other.

Boeing's defense, space and security president and chief executive Leanne Caret attributed the company's win to its experience with Navy aircraft and close understanding of the service's needs.

U.S. Navy sailors seized more than 1,000 AK-47s from a small, disabled boat in the Gulf of Aden this week after boarding the vessel to determine its nation of origin, service officials said Thursday.

The U.S. Navy says the mine found floating in Puget Sound Tuesday was an inert mine used during a 2005 exercise at its Naval Undersea Warfare Command in Keyport.

The heads of 6th Fleet and the newly reborn 2nd Fleet convened Thursday at the Navy’s European headquarters to discuss how they will monitor an increasingly assertive Russian navy, which is now massing warships in the Mediterranean Sea for large-scale exercises.

About a dozen mysterious lights lit up the sky west of San Diego on Wednesday night and their appearance set social media ablaze with theories regarding their source.

Representatives from 20 companies and organizations — including Amazon, Navy Federal Credit Union, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the American Red Cross — gathered at Yokosuka’s Admiral Arleigh A. Burke Commissioned Officers’ Mess to scout for future hires.

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The Navy said the primary explosion did not trigger a second, larger blast, indicating that the mine was inert. Navy officials said its “origins remain undetermined” and that an investigation is ongoing.

The crew of the USS John S. McCain shared a birthday cake Wednesday to commemorate what would have been late Sen. John McCain’s 82nd birthday.

Fleet Master Chief Petty Officer Russell Smith's selection comes following the announced retirement of Steven Giordano as the Navy’s top enlisted leader in June, amid allegations that he fostered a hostile work environment in his office.

The Truman strike group last deployed on April 11 to the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, but returned to Norfolk on July 21 for what the Navy called a “working port visit” that included routine maintenance and training.

An exercise now taking place aboard the Lincoln is offering a glimpse into the future of naval air power. For the first time, F-35C Lightnings are launching and landing with their older counterparts in a pace that mirrors how the ship would operate on deployment.

Sen. John McCain said, after the death of his friend Adm. Charles Larson in 2014, that he would like to be buried where it all started — in a plot very close to Larson. McCain and Larson met at the Naval Academy in the 1950s.

Navy contractors will destroy munitions recovered during recent dredging at Pearl Harbor in controlled detonations Monday at Waipio Peninsula.

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McCain endured more than five years of imprisonment and torture by the North Vietnamese as a young Navy pilot. He went on to battle foes — on the left and the right — in the marble corridors of Washington.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has enough submarine maintenance and overhaul work to keep three dry docks busy through 2021, with more on deck after that.

Bruce Fleming, who spent 31 years teaching English at the Naval Academy, was fired last week after students complaints were filed against him.

The U.S. Naval Academy this month fired a tenured English professor for what officials in Annapolis described as "unprofessional conduct," including touching cadets without their consent and emailing them photos of himself partially clothed.

The USS North Carolina isn't the only World War II-era warship with ties to the Tar Heel state. As it turns out, a lesser-known vessel with ties to the state has been at the center of an international geopolitical conflict unfolding in the South China Sea in recent years.

The USS Cavalla has been attracting a new kind of visitor: ghost hunters. After hours, when all the other visitors have left, paranormal investigators have been setting up to record video and use other equipment to explore the submarine for activity that might be considered ghostly.

The U.S. 2nd Fleet was reborn during a ceremony aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Friday, as part of a move to monitor increased Russian activity in the north Atlantic Ocean.

The USS Sioux City, a combat ship, will be commissioned at the Naval Academy on Nov. 17, making it the first combat vessel commissioned in Annapolis.

A destroyer and a transport vessel are conducting separate missions in the Black Sea, only the second time since 2014 that two Navy vessels have operated simultaneously in this tense region for more than just exercises.

Seaman Uriel Gerardo Olivas, who is being held in pre-trial confinement, gave a $500 down payment to an undercover officer pretending to be a hitman in order to have his wife murdered.

Tropical-storm force winds were expected to hit the Big Island by Wednesday evening, the National Weather Service said in an advisory. Damaging winds were forecast for Oahu — the site of most of the state’s military installations — as early as Thursday evening.

The Naval Chaplaincy School and Center headquarters will move from Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, to Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, beginning in October, with an expected completion by March 2019.

The unidentified sailor failed to report for duty at 7 a.m. Sunday, at which the guided-missile cruiser’s crew began conducting man-overboard procedures and completed “multiple extensive searches” of the vessel.

Family, friends and sailors gathered at Yokosuka’s chapel Tuesday to mark one year since a fatal collision took the lives of 10 sailors aboard the USS John S. McCain.

A Pearl Harbor survivor who pushed to identify buried unknown remains from the 1941 attack has died. He was 97.

A search and rescue operation is underway in the eastern Pacific Ocean for a sailor reported overboard from the San Diego-based guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie, according to the U.S. Navy.

The search for Cpl. Jonathan Currier began following a “Marine overboard” call at about 9:40 a.m. on Aug. 9 while the USS Essex was sailing through the Sulu Sea west of the Philippines.

Capt. Bradley Rosen, a 1995 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, took over leadership of the world's largest Navy base during a change of command overlooking its waterfront Friday. Rosen, who had served as the base's executive officer, took over from Capt. Richard McDaniel.

It's a process playing out around 40 Navy and Marine Corps installations: testing drinking water from privately owned wells for traces of harmful chemicals found in the foam that was used for years to extinguish aircraft fires.

Navy Cmdr. Blandino A. Villanueva has been fired as the executive officer of the San Diego-based guided missile destroyer Decatur due to "loss of confidence in ability to lead," the Navy said Friday.

The worst corruption scandal in Navy history reached new heights Friday as federal prosecutors announced bribery and fraud charges against three retired sailors, including an officer who allegedly took part in a wild two-day party with prostitutes in Tokyo that cost $75,000.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, the sole U.S. builder of aircraft carriers, continues to fall short of the Navy's demand to cut labor expenses to stay within an $11.39 billion cost cap mandated by Congress on the second in a new class of warships.

The nation’s only forward-deployed carrier — which departed Yokosuka Tuesday with the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius and guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam — had been at its homeport since wrapping up spring patrols in July.

The deportees of Diego Garcia island, who were dumped into poverty 1,200 miles away in Mauritius or in the equally distant Seychelles, have spent the last five decades battling the British and U.S. governments for the right to return.

Filming is expected to start early next month at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on the nearly $100 million film, and reuse already has begun for the remake.

Authorities arrested Petty Officer 1st Class Gilbert Sandoval in March after he messaged two undercover Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents — one posing as a 14-year-old girl and the other pretending to be a mother seeking a man to rape her 7-year-old daughter.

An appeal in a lawsuit filed by the widows of two Navy pilots killed in a 2013 accident was dismissed by a three-judge panel last week.

The Marine was reported missing Aug. 9 at 9:40 a.m. while the ship was crossing the Sulu Sea west of the Philippines. That prompted a round-the-clock scramble in which 13,000 nautical square miles of the Sulu Sea, the Mindanao Sea and the Surigao Strait were searched.

Family and friends worked to set up the #BeMoreLikeClaire fund to carry on Claire VanLandingham's legacy of helping others.

Planning will begin this month for the mid-life overhaul of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, a top-to-bottom refurbishment that will take place at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News shipyard.

The Navy has identified a sailor found dead at Naval Station Norfolk Friday.

Navy, Marine Corps and Philippine ships and aircraft began search-and-rescue efforts immediately after the incident was reported and continued searching through the night, according to statements.

If NMCCL receives both certifications it will become the first and only trauma center in the U.S. Navy and the only trauma center on a U.S. Marine Corps base, according to the release.

Lara Thornton and her children, Jack and Ella, have temporarily set up GoFigure — a 3D printing business specializing in mini replicas of customers — in downtown Annapolis.

The Navy posted a list of officers to be considered by the early retirement review boards on the Navy Personnel Command website. It includes some who have been in their current rank since 1998.