09 July 2020 SGOT San Diego Celebrates Command Establishment Strike Group Oceanography Team San Diego (SGOT-SD) held a virtual ceremony on Jul. 9, to formally recognize its establishment as an echelon five command, reporting to Fleet Weather Center San Diego (FWC-SD)...
29 April 2020 Naval Oceanography Improves the Fleet’s Asymmetric Advantage The Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) version 2.0 became operational on April 29, 2020, advancing weather and ocean forecasting and greatly improving overall Fleet safety and operations...
02 April 2020 Hospital Ships Arrive Safely With Help From Meteorologists, Oceanographers While USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort prepare to receive patients, Naval Oceanography's team of meteorologists and oceanographers ensured these ships were safe from hazardous weather as they traveled to their destinations...
02 April 2020 USNS Mercy and Comfort: Getting there safely USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) arrived safely in Los Angeles last week and USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) arrived safely in New York on Monday. While the Navy’s hospital ships prepare to receive patients, Naval Oceanography’s team of meteorologists and oceanographers ensured these ships were safe from...
01 April 2020 Naval Oceanography Visits Australia to Cement Partnerships Rear Adm. John Okon, commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, traveled to Australia earlier this month for an engagement and familiarization visit with the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation and Royal Australian Navy meteorology-oceanography activities...
23 January 2020 Fleet Synthetic Training Gets the Fleet Ready in a Virtual Battlespace For a decade, Sailors in all of the Navy’s carrier strike groups (CSG), expeditionary strike groups (ESG), and amphibious readiness groups (ARG) have prepared for deployments with an exercise in a virtual environment called Fleet Synthetic Training...
13 December 2019 Carroll Inducted Into Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame Naval Oceanography is the U.S. Navy's leader in unmanned maritime systems operations, and the enterprise can trace this enormous success directly to Mr. Jerry Carroll, who was inducted into the Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Dec. 12, 2019...
29 November 2019 Naval Oceanography Commander Addresses Boot Camp Graduates Navy Recruit Training Command welcomed 836 new Sailors to the fleet at their basic training graduation on Nov. 22 in Great Lakes, Ill. Rear Adm. John Okon, CNMOC, addressed Training Group Fifty-Five about their tremendous achievement...
14 August 2018 Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center Becomes Naval Information Warfare Training Group Gulfport Naval Information Warfare Training Group Gulfport (IWTG Gulfport) leadership has announced the command's transition from Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center (NMOPDC) to IWTG Gulfport...