A Connecticut Blue Economy Coalition has formed to boost businesses linked to the sea through the products and services they sell. Last week they held a ceremony at Mystic Seaport Museum to mark the start of their work.

The Navy will name a new Navajo-class Towing, Salvage, and Rescue (T-ATS) ship in honor of the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island.

The push to continue the pace of building two Virginia-class submarines per year is in limbo as Congress works through defense authorization and funding bills that are currently at odds on procurement.

The U.S. sailor accused of slamming into and injuring five people near a popular beach two years ago was suffering from delirium and not in control of his actions, a forensic psychiatrist testified Monday. 

An 11-day military exercise by the U.S. and Japan ended with the sinking of a decommissioned warship in the North Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said.

Warships from the U.S., Philippines, Japan and Canada held two days of drills this week in the contested South China Sea to reaffirm “the four nations’ commitment to bolstering regional security and stability,” according to official statements.

The USS St. Louis left Naval Station Mayport, Fla., on Saturday on its first deployment. The primary mission for the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship will be to counter illicit drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

Sailors assigned to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group airlifted to safety the crew of a merchant vessel attacked by Iranian-backed Houthis in the Red Sea.

The U.S. military is preparing to temporarily remove its humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza because of anticipated sea conditions, a U.S. official said on Friday, the latest challenge to the effort that has been hampered by bad weather since it was put into place in May.

Plans by the U.S. Navy to deploy a nuclear submarine to Cuba this week were considered so routine, little thought was given to the move within the U.S. government — until the Biden administration learned of Russia’s plans to dock one of its own in Havana at the same time.