16 August 2023 Navy Leadership: Naval Oceanography HQ Employees of the Year Both Millennials The selection of CNMOC Junior EOY Sidney Dills, International Policy Program Analyst and CNMOC Senior EOY Jeffrey Lorens, IT Systems Engineering Lead─both millennials born between 1980 and 1990─is a clear indicator the future-generation of U.S. Navy’s leaders have arrived...
07 July 2023 Naval Oceanography Employee Completes New Information Warfare Program STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss.——Recently, a U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (Naval Oceanography) employee completed a first-of-its-kind Department of Defense (DOD) program—the Navigation Leadership Development Program (NLDP)— designated for the Navy’s Information Warfare Community...
12 June 2023 Navy Makes Impact at World Oceans Day, NOLA Aquarium Grand Re-Opening “I wanted to emphasize the importance of the METOC community’s efforts not only presently, but in years to come, by highlighting the work of Federal-Civilian employees and how we play a vital role in the continuity of mission readiness and execution,” said Bodin...
08 May 2023 Naval Oceanography Critical Part of U.S. Citizen Evacuations in Sudan Recently, the U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (Naval Oceanography) proved mission-essential in the first U.S.-led evacuation of hundreds of American citizens from the, currently war-torn, country of Sudan.Naval Oceanography provided critical forecasts and surveys of ports, harbors...
28 April 2023 Representatives of 98 countries to gather in Monaco for the IHO Assembly Representatives of the 98 Member States of the International Hydrographic Organization will gather for the Assembly, Member State, and Industry Exhibition from 1 to 5 May 2023. Held every three years, the gathering provides a forum for countries to come together, discuss new developments in...
25 April 2023 Navy DSRC Adds New Supercomputer The Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (Navy DSRC) is proud to announce the latest addition to its lineup of supercomputers: Nautilus. Nautilus is a Penguin TrueHPC supercomputer with a peak performance of 8.2 petaFLOPS, 176,128 compute cores, 382 TB of memory, and 26 petabytes of storage. It...
27 February 2023 Iceberg A-80D Has Calved from Iceberg A-80A in the Weddell Sea The U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) has confirmed that iceberg A-80D (figure 1, below) calved from iceberg A-80A in the Weddell Sea. As of February 24, A-80A was centered at 72°02' South and 59°17' West and measured 12 nautical miles on its longest axis and 8 nautical miles on its widest axis...
06 February 2023 U.S. Navy Collecting Surveillance Balloon Debris The U.S. military began collecting the remnants of a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down by an Air Force fighter over the weekend...
02 December 2022 Naval Oceanography Visits Australia 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...
22 November 2022 Naval Oceanography Takes Part in U.S. Pacific Fleet Junior Officer Undersea Symposium and Training Event More than 50 junior officers gathered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the inaugural Commander, Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet Junior Officer Undersea Symposium and Training (JOUST) event, Nov. 14-18, 2022.“This symposium was an all-community event, planned and executed by our best and...