About 240 midshipmen hoisted placards designating their future deployments into the air Thursday at the Naval Academy’s annual Ship Selection Night.

(Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matt Hall/Navy) The Navy’s new five-part plan to prepare new ships for deployment will require more maintenance time for the current fleet. However ...

With a model of the 1876 ship, the USS Antietam, looming beyond midshipmen and state lawmakers gathered inside the academy’s Dahlgren Hall, Del Toro designated the Navy’s modern class of ...

Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named two new ships during a ceremony at the United States Naval Academy. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named two new ships during a ceremony at the ...

THE CHRISTENING OF THE AMPHIBIOUS SHIP CELEBRATED A CULMINATION OF TIME AND EFFORT, AND REPRESENTS THE FUTURE FOR THE U.S. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS. THE TWO WOMEN CARRYING OUT THE LONG TIME TRADITION ...

The two names continue the convention for namesakes of USS Ford-class carriers, the Navy’s current largest and newest aircraft carriers. Of the six Ford-class ships under construction or ...

And while the sea service is experimenting with AI in a large variety of ways, Staples said ERM v4 is the first program-of-record platform deployed in such a fashion aboard a Navy ship. It intends to ...