With nearly 2.6 million people on payroll, the Department of Defense is one of the largest employers in the world. While DOD employees, including civilians and active-duty service members, are ...

Dodson, who is from Knoxville, Tenn., had been in the Navy for five years at the time of the killing and stationed on the submarine USS Newport News (SSN 750), which was home-ported at the Naval ...

Leading the 7th Fleet was its flagship and the oldest ship currently in service in the U.S. Navy, the USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19). (These are the U.S. Navy’s newest ships in June 2024.) The treaty ...

GROTON, Connecticut — Cmdr. Joseph Fontenot turned command of the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Newport News (SSN 750) over to Cmdr. Eric McCay in a traditional change-of-command ...

GROTON, Conn. (WAVY) — The USS Newport News recently held a change of command ceremony. Cmdr. Joseph Fontenot turned command over to Cmdr. Eric McCay on Friday, Nov. 3 at Naval Submarine Base ...

The collision between USS Newport News (SSN 750) and the Japanese-flagged motor vessel Mogamigawa occurred at approximately 10:15 in the evening (local time) in the strait of Hormuz while the ...

Los Angeles (SSN 688)-class submarines are the backbone of the U.S. Navy’s submarine force with 41 ships now on active duty. Thirty Los Angeles-class SSNs are equipped with 12 Vertical Launch ...

A 23-year-old Navy submariner has pleaded not guilty to charges he killed his wife with a hammer and set their house on fire in an attempt to kill their infant son. Petty Officer 2nd Class George ...

Seth Koenig. He has been assigned to the USS Newport News (SSN 750), which is homeported at Naval Submarine Base New London, since 2019. As an active duty service member, George Dodson is a second ...

The USS California (SSN 781) was completed as the fastest availability of its kind, USS Newport News (SSN 750) was delivered on time for fleet operations, and USS Annapolis (SSN 760) was delivered ...

Beyond NSS-SY improvements, Pasadena’s team incorporated lessons learned from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s USS Newport News (SSN 750) DSRA in planning the availability and executing similar jobs.