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Naval Oceanography Hosts Naval Information Forces for Operations Tour
March 1, 2023 — Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) recently visited Naval Oceanography for a two-day tour of its facilities and familiarization with its current operations, plans and programs. Ms. Elizabeth Nashold, Deputy Commander, NAVIFOR and CAPT Dave Kuehn, Chief of Staff NAVIFOR attended the visit and tour, engaging Sailors and Civilians for an in-depth look at how the Naval Oceanography enterprise conducts business. Nashold led an ‘All Hands’ call with the Naval Oceanography enterprise at Stennis Space Center, where she stood in-front of an intrigued audience——held at the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) ——for a detailed presentation of NAVIFOR’s structure and, its current and future operations. During the ‘All Hands’ call, Nashold made sure to communicate the ‘how’ and ‘why’ NAVIFOR executes its mission. As a tour stop, the Navy DOD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) opened its doors to Nashold and company, featuring its newest High Performance Computer (HPC), the NARWHAL; combined with four other HPC systems as the largest unclassified HPC system in DOD’s modernization program. NAVIFOR generates, directly and through our leadership of the IW enterprise, agile and technically superior manned, trained, equipped and certified combat-ready IW forces to ensure our Navy will decisively deter, compete and win. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command directs and oversees more than 2,500 globally-distributed military and civilian personnel who collect, process and exploit environmental information to assist Fleet and Joint Commanders in all warfare areas to make better decisions faster than the adversary. ... MORE

WEST 2023: Naval Oceanography Answers Future Challenges
February 22, 2023 — Rear Adm. Ron Piret, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (Naval Oceanography) and subordinate commands participated and attended AFCEA-USNI WEST (WEST) 2023 conference, Feb. 14-16. Considering global tensions, the premier naval conference and exposition—WEST—themed its 33rd iteration as: “Readiness, Capability and Capacity: How Do the Sea Services Match Up Against the Future Threat?” Piret answered the theme’s call when he addressed the audience in the Information Warfare Pavilion speaker series where he shared Naval Oceanography’s mission and capacity with industry professionals, academia, and other military leaders. ... MORE

Back At It: JTWC Conducts Training With USS Daniel Inouye
December 17, 2022 — Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) resumed fleet liaison observation training in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii starting with USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), on Dec. 15, 2022. For the first time since COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii resumed its long-standing practice of fleet liaison... MORE

Naval Oceanography Hosts U.K. Hydrographic Office
December 15, 2022 — Rear Adm. Ronald Piret, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC), and his staff hosted a visit by Rear Adm. Rhett Hatcher, Director of Data Acquisition and National Hydrographer for United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), to CNMOC Headquarters at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi Nov. 28. The purpose of the visit was to... MORE

Naval Oceanography Visits Australia
December 2, 2022 — Rear Adm. Ron Piret, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, visited Australia to meet with his counterparts from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during a scheduled visit to the region, Nov 7-11, 2022. The Naval Oceanography delegation traveled to Australia to conduct the... MORE

C7F and CSG 7 Staffs Tour Oceanographic Survey Ship, USNS Mary Sears, in Yokosuka
October 20, 2022 — Staff assigned to Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet’s Meteorology and Oceanography cell and from Submarine Group (CSG) 7/Task Force (CTF) 74 toured Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65) in Yokosuka, Japan, October 20, 2022. ... MORE

SECNAV visits FNMOC
August 22, 2022 — Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro visited Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Command (FNMOC) in Monterey, California, August 18. Del Toro met with Sailor and Civilians, toured command facilities and received updates on FNMOC’s high performance computing (HPC) upgrades, power upgrades investment, and advances in numerical modeling. ... MORE

Midshipmen Test the Waters, Second IW Summer Cruise Underway
August 2, 2022 — The second annual Information Warfare (IW) Community summer cruise got underway in Suffolk, Va., in early June with the first of three waves of U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) First Class Midshipmen touring various IW commands... MORE

JTWC Int’l Roadshow Strengthens U.S.-Japanese Alliance
June 10, 2022 — Naval Oceanography’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) visited the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) during JTWC’s 2022 International Roadshow, June 10. JTWC’s Director, Mr. Brian Strahl and its Training Department Head, Dr. Owen Shieh executed the visit, offering training to JMA’s forward-deployed weather personnel—focusing on tropical cyclone operations and JTWC warnings as well as decision-support products—ultimately reinforcing the U.S.-Japanese partnership alliance. “The alliance between Japan and the United States is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific", said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday during a recent meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). “Our bond with Japan has never been stronger…we share a common vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific and, together, we will work tirelessly to ensure and maintain security and stability in one of the world’s most important regions…as well as engage in productive discussions on how our navies can accelerate critical advances in interoperability.” ... MORE

Naval Oceanography Spearheads New Test, Evaluation Process
March 4, 2022 — STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. — U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (Naval Oceanography) is utilizing cutting-edge methodologies for: Fleet experimentation; test and evaluation(T&E); tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) development; and mission engineering of warfare systems, known as Live Virtual Constructive Modeling & Simulation (LVC M&S). Essentially, LVC M&S is: Live-simulation involving real-people operating real-systems; Virtual-simulation with real-people operating simulated systems; and Constructive-simulation of simulated people operating simulated systems—all working to create the most realistic model and simulation of a physical-battlespace. ... MORE

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