Five Navy ships now outfitted with augmented reality maintenance tech
The new systems are designed to circumvent the costly need for subject matter experts to physically travel to ships to provide tech support.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
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Trump fires service academy boards that oversee morale, academics
President Trump claimed the boards of visitors at four U.S. service academies had been “infiltrated by woke leftist ideologies.”
Fighting Fitz recently wrapped up its first post-collision deployment
“The Fitz is back, and we’re focused on continuing to get better.”
How far has the US Navy come since the McCain, Fitzgerald collisions?
Six officials with first-hand knowledge of the surface force then and now spoke to Defense News leading up to the anniversary of the McCain collision.
Council tests out-of-the-box ideas to boost at-sea safety
After two catastrophic collisions in 2017, the U.S. Navy moved forward with dozens of recommendations meant to ensure it couldn’t happen again. But during this process, something became clear: Despite spending billions of dollars on readiness initiatives, the Navy’s mishap rate hadn’t improved in the last 30 years.
Surface warfare officers cautiously optimistic about changes since Fitz and McCain disasters
“Acknowledging a positive trend requires you to acknowledge you’re coming from somewhere negative."
Five years later: Inside the Navy’s data-driven quest to avert a future Fitzgerald or McCain collision
The surface navy has worked since 2017 to avoid future fatal collisions. But Navy-wide, there's evidence of failure to learn. The service is now turning to data to ensure it never has another Fitzgerald or McCain disaster again.
Tell us: How is the surface fleet doing five years after the Fitz and McCain collisions?
Have surface fleet reforms made things better? Give us your perspective.
You’re leaving the military. Should you pursue your passion or just find a job?
Dream job or something to pay the bills? How to find work after the military.
These warships are leaving Japan after more than two decades overseas
Both are set to join U.S. 3rd Fleet on the West Coast.
After McCain, Fitzgerald collision reports, Navy says it’s focused on ‘fundamentals’ of warfighting
The findings of the comprehensive reviews of the 2017 collisions of the guided-missile destroyers Fitzgerald and McCain have prompted the Navy to devote greater attention to the fundamentals of warfighting.
By Diana Stancy