Dept. of Navy – Worth Knowing

•  “Partners for the Planet” Brings Key Stakeholders Together for Environmental Forum:...The event brought together the U.S. Navy, environmental non-government organizations (NGOs), and other key stakeholders to discuss environmental topics of shared concern...

Task Force Energy Forum
•  RADM Collum and Energy Security Panel (29.9MB)
•  SECNAV Mabus (12.1MB)
•  CNO ADM Roughead (9.79MB)
•  CMC GEN Conway (14.1MB)
•  MG Payne and Panel (34.5MB)
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•  RADM Nevin P. Carr, Shaping the Future Force: Partnership Opportunities in Energy S&T (2.26MB)

•  Mullen Fights for Mental Health Funding on Capitol Hill: With increasing pressure on the defense budget, the top military officer called increased mental health care services for returning combat troops...

•  Navy Supports the President’s Ocean Policy Task Force: The U.S. Navy has joined other federal agencies in a task force led by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, or CEQ, to develop the nation’s first unified ocean policy and marine spatial planning framework...

•  Alternative Energy Revitalizes Afghan Hospital: The provincial reconstruction team for eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province has planned and implemented a concept that uses alternative energy to power the Sharana District Center Hospital...

•  Helping Wounded Warriors is America’s Responsibility: Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics annual convention that its members are in a position to connect veterans – especially wounded veterans – to their greater communities...

•  Navy Teams to Study Marine Mammals in the Mediterranean: New data gathered during a recent multinational study supported by the U.S. Navy and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) gives researchers hope of better understanding the Mediterranean and its marine populations...

•  Navy Continues its Commitment to Science through Marine Mammal Studies: ...Both studies used small dart tags with satellite transmitters to track the movements of whales before, during and after unit-level and larger battle group exercises that included the use of active sonar...