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Mark Esper, now an executive at tech incubator Red Cell Partners, thinks there may not be a clear winner in the AI battle.

A military judge found a Navy sailor accused of starting the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard not guilty on Friday.

The center is modeled on the operations centers commercial airlines use, but the Navy center’s aim is to boost readiness as opposed to profits. “The idea is, if I have $100, then where do I place that $100 to give me the most readiness.”

The center now handles Ospreys as well as E2s, the Navy’s advanced reconnaissance planes; C-2 Greyhounds, its carrier onboard delivery planes; and P-8 patrol planes; and is about to expand to handle C-130s cargo planes and other Marine Corps aircraft.

The Naval Helicopter Association symposium held May 11-13 centered on how the human advantage strengthens Naval Aviation’s rotary wing community.

Seaman Ryan Sawyer Mays, the man the Navy alleges is responsible for one of the Navy's biggest peacetime disasters, will be tried in September.

NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. – The Navy is making the first major changes to the carrier air wing in a generation. The service just wrapped up the first carrier deployment of the F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters – the first new fighter jet on a carrier in 20 years – and is […]

The Navy wants its new two-star safety command to evaluate risk and safety in a similar way to how the service looks at the health of its ships, the number-two officer told Congress today. Adm. Bill Lescher, the vice chief of naval operations, compared the recently established Naval Safety Command to the Board of Inspection […]

In less than two years, the service has seen several major accidents, both afloat and ashore.

A sailor received a first preliminary court hearing Monday at the U.S. Navy's base in San Diego, California, over allegations that he started the fire in July 2020 that resulted in the total loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship.