The USNS Harvey Milk will become the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday. “We are renaming the ship after a United States Navy Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, as it should be,” he said.

The Navy’s fiscal 2026 budget request for the sea service and the Marine Corps totals $292.2 billion of which $47.3 billion would go to building new ships.

Ukraine’s Black Sea operations against Russia are shaping U.S. Navy and NATO thinking on the future of drones, mines and missile tactics in global maritime warfare.

Seaman Angelina Resendiz, a 21-year-old culinary specialist, was found dead June 9 about 10 miles from Naval Station Norfolk, Va., where the sailor went missing 12 days earlier.

A familiar face may soon return to Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan to lead the U.S. 7th Fleet after Rear Adm. Michael “Buzz” Donnelly was nominated for promotion to vice admiral and appointment as commander of the Navy’s largest overseas force.

NASA and the U.S. Navy are seeking public comment on a draft environmental impact statement that proposes their continued use of state land for a missile range and observatory on Kauai island in Hawaii.

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.