09 January 2023 Naval Oceanography: Pathfinders of the American Military – Part 1 The modern U.S. Navy operates some of the most technologically advanced systems ever created. These include much heralded programs such as the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) aircraft carrier, the F-35C Lightning II fifth-generation multirole combat jet, and Virginia-class attack submarines. Icons of...
14 October 2022 NPS Meteorology Professor Awarded Buchan Prize for Seminal Work in Hurricane Prediction Expanding the theoretical knowledge of hurricanes and tropical cyclones is essential to improving early warning systems, especially in a changing climate with increasing potential to fuel the severity of these weather events and their impact on military operations...
08 December 2021 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Visits Naval Oceanography Naval Oceanography hosted Mr. James Griffith, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director, Source Operations and Management Directorate—along with other NGA personnel—for a detailed overview of Commander Naval Meteorology ad Oceanography Command (CNMOC) for operational briefs and...
01 October 2020 SGOT Norfolk Celebrates Command Establishment Strike Group Oceanography Team Norfolk (SGOT-N) held a virtual ceremony Oct.1 to formally recognize its establishment as an Echelon V command, reporting to Fleet Weather Center Norfolk (FWC-N)...
17 August 2020 New Stennis-based Vessel has Special Namesake Fleet Survey Team (FST) launched a new Hydrographic Survey Vessel (HSV), the 'Norma May,' which went underway for the first time on the Pearl River on Aug. 6, 2020, for testing and training...
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...