The USS Virginia returned to Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., on Friday after a six-month deployment.

Cmdr. Daniel Ropp is exercising his artistic side with contributions to the Navy and local Japanese communities around Naval Air Facility Atsugi, finding joy in the impact his work has on others.

An Australian naval officer recently became the first of his countryman to earn the U.S. Navy Submarine Warfare Device, often referred to as “dolphins.”

Since 2015, the Navy has spent about $3.7 billion modernizing seven Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers. But only three will be delivered back to fleet, and none will gain five service life years as intended, according to a federal watchdog.

A future constellation-class guided missile frigate (FFG 69) will be named USS Joy Bright Hancock, a tribute to one of the first female officers to serve in the U.S. Navy, according to a Navy news release.

A US airstrike on a hub for coordinating Houthi operations came on the heels of USS Truman’s entrance into the Red Sea.

Department of Defense Education Activity has opened an annex to its middle school at Naval Base Guam to accommodate the growing student population.

While all eyes have been on the highly-anticipated Army-Navy academy football match Saturday, a quiet collaboration between the branches bore fruit at Cape Canaveral on Thursday.

The Navy is looking to expand and modernize vast training areas in waters off Hawaii and California, including the planned addition of mine warfare ranges, that the service says are needed to train and test America’s newest weapons and drone systems and defend against those of rivals.

The change comes on the heels of a bend in the curve in the sea service’s recruiting efforts. The Navy was on track to meet its 2024 recruiting goal, but the service was unable to push them all through boot camp before the end of the fiscal year.

The initial data released in the Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence at the Military Academies shows an estimated 783 academy students experienced unwanted sexual contact in the 2023-24 school year compared with 1,136 in 2022. 

Capt. Joseph Parsons is the new commander of Fleet Activities Okinawa, a unique command that encompasses Navy aviators and ocean-going sailors.

Robert Fernandez, who died Wednesday at age 100 in Lodi, Calif., was among the hundreds of service members who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. His death leaves barely more than a dozen survivors of the attack still living.

The newest John Lewis-class replenishment oiler, the USNS Robert F. Kennedy, was delivered on Tuesday in San Diego, Naval Sea Systems Command said in a news release.

Officials at the Navy’s largest base in Italy are determining whether pipes carrying water to homes, child care centers, schools and other facilities at the installation may pose a higher risk of lead contamination.

Two U.S. Navy destroyers defeated a Houthi militant drone and missile attack earlier this week while escorting merchant ships through the Gulf of Aden, U.S. military officials said.

The U.S. Navy and the University of Hawaii have signed a 10-year agreement aimed at leveraging the institute’s expertise to bolster climate resilience and protect natural and cultural resources on Navy and Marine Corps bases in the state.

The Navy is focusing on renovating its squalid unaccompanied housing and stepping up maintenance and management of living conditions. The effort is meant to address issues identified by a 2023 GAO report that found poor living conditions across DOD-owned housing.

The future USS Arkansas, the 27th Virginia-class submarine, was christened Saturday in Newport News, Va.