SAN DIEGO (Aug. 22, 2019) – Vice Adm. Richard A. Brown, Commander, Naval Surface Forces, delivers the keynote address at the Surface Navy Association’s 21st annual West Coast symposium on board Naval ...

The Navy is doling out more cash in retention bonuses to surface warfare officers, offering up to $150,000 for officers to stay in service. The increase in bonuses comes as the Navy eyes ways to keep ...

I’ll confess. Although printf-style debugging has a bad rep, I find myself turning to it on occasion. Sure, printf is expensive and brings in a lot of code, but if you have the space and time to use ...

The three-ship Zumwalt-class destroyer’s ability to generate electricity, and its size, makes it the right candidate to test ...

Ensign Marshal White, right, and Lt. j.g. Daniel Feeney stand watch aboard the warship John S. McCain on Nov. 4. (Navy) Two U.S. congressmen introduced a bill last week that, if it becomes law, would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fewer than half of the Navy’s surface warfare officers want to go on to command, and most believe the surface fleet is failing to ...

Capt. John F. Meier, then commanding officer USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), and Susan Ford Bales, ship’s sponsor, pin on Lt. j.g. Nicole Oliver’s surface warfare officer device, held inside the ship’s ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Three staff weather officers provided Task Force Wings (4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division) with weather updates and ...

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq - Imagine a blinding, gusting wall of sand and dust five to eight thousand feet high, spanning 60 to 90 miles, moving at a rate of 35 to 60 kilometers an hour ...

The federal government's watchdog agency is recommending that the Navy make significant changes to the Surface Warfare Officer, or SWO, career path. The Government Accountability Office, or GAO, ...