Defense News in Brief: Navy Lodge locations now open for leisure travel

Source: United States Navy

Most Navy Lodge locations around the world are now taking reservations for leisure travel on a space available basis. In Spring 2020, Navy Lodges began restricting leisure travel as its locations were used to accommodate guests placed on restriction of movement orders by their commands due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Defense News in Brief: NAVWAR Announces Project Overmatch Prize Challenge; Offers $100,000 in Total Cash Prizes

Source: United States Navy

SAN DIEGO – NAVWAR kicked off the Networks Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (NetANTX) Challenge, a prize competition seeking operationally relevant innovations and emerging networking technologies, in support of Project Overmatch, a high priority Navy initiative aimed at delivering a more lethal, better-connected fleet of the future.

Defense News in Brief: FRCE teamwork, ingenuity produce millions in cost avoidance

Source: United States Navy

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. – A cross-disciplinary team of Fleet Readiness Center East facilities maintenance personnel, production artisans and engineers excelled at problem solving when an automated welding machine for F402 engine combustion chambers – the only one of its kind in the world – started malfunctioning earlier this year. The team worked together for several weeks to implement a workaround, delivering results that produced a cost avoidance for the fleet that could add up to more than $4.9 million.

Defense News in Brief: U.S. Forces Conduct Joint Aviation Integration Exercise with UAE and Saudi Arabia

Source: United States Navy

MANAMA, Bahrain – U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) and U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT) conducted multiple simultaneous, joint air operations in support of maritime surface warfare (AOMSW) exercises with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Coast Guard and Joint Aviation Command (JAC), and Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) in the Arabian Gulf, June 1-2.

Defense News in Brief: Norfolk Naval Shipyard Supports Environmental Stewardship: Clean the Bay, Our Way

Source: United States Navy

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Each year, on the first Saturday of June, Hampton Roads residents simultaneously descend on the rivers, streams, beaches and land-based properties of the Chesapeake Bay watershed to remove litter and debris. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participation will be slightly different. However, Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) will be safely charging forward to participate in its own rendition of Clean the Bay Day (CTBD).