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.

The seven-month deployment entailed high-profile exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea, the latter of which prompted flyovers by Russian bombers, and over a dozen port visits.

The lawsuits filed by the mother of 24-year-old Navy Corpsman Devon Rideout alleged the Marine Corps and the California Department of Justice failed to properly submit information about the background of Rideout’s killer, a Marine Corps deserter.

The U.S. Naval Academy may continue using race in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Friday, brushing back an attempt by a group that had successfully overturned affirmative action in college admissions to extend that to the Annapolis-based military academy.

Navy officials in charge of the military’s main operating base in Africa put troops at higher risk of exposure to toxic air by not heeding environmental safety requirements, a Defense Department probe found.

U.S. military bases across the country and around the world are hosting Christmas tree lighting ceremonies and festive activities for service members and their families this month to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season.

The Navy announced updates to its Fitness Enhancement Program, giving sailors who come up short on the service’s body composition assessment standards an incentive for passing the fitness phase with a score of excellent-low or higher.

Sasebo Naval Base recently became the first Navy base in Japan to successfully test its ability to maintain electrical power through backup generators in case it’s cut off from the local grid, the service said.