A U.S. Navy captain and Rhode Island native is now in command of Naval Station Newport. ... The station provides facilities and infrastructure support for 50 tenant commands located there.

In December 2023, the United States Navy and NOAA announced the creation of a new 5-acre base in Newport to serve as the headquarters of NOAA's fleet of over a dozen research vessels.

A new nuclear-powered submarine on the drawing board for the U.S. Submarine Force will enter service as the USS Long Island, the third U.S. Navy ship to be named after Long Island and the first ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN – When the Navy base at Quonset Point closed in the 1970s, it delivered a body blow to Rhode Island's economy that would be felt for years. But when the federal government ...

This quaint patch of seldom-visited Long Island, sandwiched between Great Peconic Bay and Little Peconic Bay, is to the history of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force — the "Silent Service" — what ...

$5.9 billion to fully support the Columbia-class program, including $543 million for stability in the submarine industrial base. $207 million for workforce training to support the production of ...

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