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Secretary Mabus Names Next Destroyer Carl M. Levin
From Secretary of the Navy Public Aff airs
DETROIT (NNS) -- Today, during a cere- mony in Detroit, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the next Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, DDG 120, will be named Carl M. Levin in honor of the longest serving senator in Michigan history. During his 36 years in the Senate, Levin
was a member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and its chair for more than nine years. He also served as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Inves- tigations, as a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Aff airs, and Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He led the Senate in adoption of the Defense Authorization Acts from 2007 through January 2015 when he retired.
Currently, Levin is senior counsel at
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP and chair of the Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School and the law school’s distinguished legislator in residence. “It is a great honor to name this ship in
recognition of such a dedicated public ser- vant,” said Mabus. “I have no doubt that all who serve aboard her will carry on the legacy of service and commitment exemplifi ed by Carl Levin during his storied career.” “My family and I are deeply moved by
this singular honor and to be so wonderfully connected to the men and women of our great Navy,” said Levin. Arleigh-Burke class destroyers conduct
a variety of operations from peacetime pres- ence and crisis response to sea control and power projection. DDG 120 will be capable of fi ghting air, surface and subsurface battles simultaneously and will contain a combina- tion of off ensive and defensive weapon sys- tems designed to support maritime warfare including integrated air and missile defense and vertical launch capabilities. The ship will be constructed at Bath
Iron Works in Maine and is expected to enter the Navy fl eet in 2020. The ship will be 509 feet long, have a beam length of 59 feet and be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 30 knots. Levin’s wife, Barbara, is the sponsor of
littoral combat ship USS Detroit (LCS 7), which is expected to be commissioned later this summer along the Detroit River.
New Research Ship Ready for Duty
By Warren Duffi e, Offi ce of Naval Re- search Public Aff airs
ARLINGTON, VA (NNS) -- Amid booming fi reworks, steely skies, blustery winds and the joyful cheers from a large crowd of well-wishers the brand-new research vessel Neil Armstrong recently arrived at its new home at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, offi cials an- nounced April 14. During a pier-side ceremony featuring
remarks from former astronaut Neil Arm- strong’s widow, Carol, current astronaut Sunita Williams, and Frank Herr, head of the Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department at the Offi ce of Naval Research, spoke about the important work the new research vessel will perform. “Our Navy and our federal partners
who use the ship gain great value from the research the ship enables over its life,” said Herr. “I estimate that Neil Armstrong will enable more than 11,000 scientifi c journal articles, generations of scientists who will gain at-sea training while performing work for their graduate degrees, and a huge amount of ocean engineering development for new sensors and devices, which continue
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to permit our oceanographers to lead the world in understanding the oceans.” Since the end of World War II, the U.S.
Navy has provided state-of-the-art research ships to select universities and oceanograph- ic institutions to support mutually benefi cial scientifi c studies of the marine environment. The Navy and other federal agencies
fund the construction of oceanographic research ships, and provide them to U.S. academic institutions for operational man- agement and use. This allows contributing agencies to take advantage of research op- portunities using the entire U.S. academic research fl eet -- providing a range of ship sizes and capabilities, cooperative missions and signifi cant cost savings. The Neil Armstrong is operated by
Woods Hole, a private, nonprofi t organiza- tion dedicated to marine research, engineer- ing and higher education, under a charter agreement with ONR. “The U.S. Navy is proud to support the
national research fl eet by delivering state- of-the-art research vessels like the R/V Neil Armstrong,” said Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mat Winter. “The collaborative projects that will be undertaken on the Neil Armstrong highlight the vital partnerships ONR has developed with research institu-
tions and academia.” Named after the fi rst person to walk
on the moon, Neil Armstrong replaces the R/V Knorr, which Woods Hole operated from 1970 to 2014. Knorr was a celebrated vessel, serving as the command ship during the discovery of deep ocean thermal vents (nicknamed “black smokers”) in 1977 and the wreck of RMS Titanic in 1985. Neil Armstrong is a deep-ocean, gen-
eral-purpose research vessel that will be used for a wide range of scientifi c studies including ocean chemistry and geology, underwater acoustics, marine biology and ecosystem management, and marine tech- nology.
Some of this work
will be essential to gain- ing a greater under- standing of the Earth’s changing climate and learning more about the environments in which the Navy operates, said Tim Schnoor, who over- sees ONR’s research vessel programs. The 238-foot Neil
Armstrong can sail on cruises as long as 40
days and accommodate 24 scientists in ad- dition to the 20-person crew. The vessel has advanced sonar to map the ocean bottom in greater detail and state-of-the-art meteoro- logical sensors. It also features the latest navigation
and ship-positioning systems and a spe- cially designed hull that minimizes bubbles sweeping below it, improving sonar sensing. The ship also runs on clean diesel engines that are more fuel effi cient than Knorr’s. Neil Armstrong and other Navy-owned vessels are among the largest in the U.S.
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